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Nineteenth Century Periodical Press and the Development of Detective Fiction

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AvSamuel Saunders

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This book re-imagines nineteenth-century detective fiction as a literary genre that was connected to, and nurtured by, contemporary periodical journalism. Whilst ‘detective fiction’ is almost universally-accepted to have originated in the nineteenth century, a variety of widely-accepted scholarly narratives of the genre’s evolution neglect to connect it with the development of a free press.The volume traces how police officers, detectives, criminals, and the criminal justice system were discussed in the pages of a variety of magazines and journals, and argues that this affected how the wider nineteenth-century society perceived organised law enforcement and detection. This, in turn, helped to shape detective fiction into the genre that we recognise today. The book also explores how periodicals and newspapers contained forgotten, non-canonical examples of ‘detective fiction’, and that these texts can help complicate the narrative of the genre’s evolution across the mid- to late nineteenth century.

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Utgivningsdatum2021-05-12
Mått152 x 229 x 19 mm
Vikt453 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieRoutledge Studies in Nineteenth Century Literature
Antal sidor246
FörlagTaylor & Francis Ltd
ISBN9780367029616

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Samuel Saunders holds a PhD in English from Liverpool John Moores University, which he obtained in 2018 after defending a thesis that examined nineteenth-century crime and detective fiction and its connections with Victorian journalism and print culture. He has published research in numerous peer-reviewed journals such as the Journal of Popular Culture, the Wilkie Collins Journal, Law, Crime and History, and the journal of the Open Library of the Humanities, and has co-edited a collection on sidekicks in crime fiction. Samuel has taught English at both LJMU and the Unviersity of Chester, has acted as a guest professor for the Ohio State University, and is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (FHEA).

List of FiguresAcknowledgementsIntroduction: Victorian Policing and Victorian PeriodicalsPart 1: Policing and Crime in PeriodicalsChapter 1: Periodical Discourse on Policing: c. 1850-1875Chapter 2: ‘A Condemned Cell with a View’: Crime Journalism c. 1750-1880Part 2: Memoirs and SensationsChapter 3: ‘"Detective" literature, if it may be so called’: The Police Officer and the Police MemoirChapter 4: ‘The Romance of the Detective’: Police Memoir Fiction and Sensation FictionPart 3: From Scandal to the Strand MagazineChapter 5: ‘...people are naturally distrustful of its future working’: The 1877 Detective Scandal in the Victorian Mass MediaChapter 6: From ‘Handsaw’ to Holmes: Police Officers and Detectives in Late-Victorian JournalismConclusionIndex

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