Victorian Detective Fiction and the Nature of Evidence

Victorian Detective Fiction and the Nature of Evidence
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Publisher : Springer
Total Pages : 260
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ISBN-10 : 9781403919328
ISBN-13 : 1403919321
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Book Synopsis Victorian Detective Fiction and the Nature of Evidence by : L. Frank

Download or read book Victorian Detective Fiction and the Nature of Evidence written by L. Frank and published by Springer. This book was released on 2003-07-02 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Frank investigates an intertextual exchange between nineteenth-century historical disciplines (philology, cosmology, geology archaeology and evolutionary biology) and the detective fictions of Poe, Dickens, and Doyle. In responding to the writings of figures like Lyell, Darwin and E.B. Taylor, detective fiction initiated a transition from scriptural literalism and a prevailing Natural Theology to a naturalistic, secular worldview. In the process, detective fiction sceptically examined both the evidence such disciplines used and their narrative rendering of the world.


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