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Detective Fiction and the Rise of Forensic Science - Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture Thomas, Ronald R. (Trinity College, Connecticut)
Detective Fiction and the Rise of Forensic Science - Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture
Thomas, Ronald R. (Trinity College, Connecticut)
This is a book about the relationship between the development of forensic science in the nineteenth century and the new literary genre of detective fiction in Britain and America - from Edgar Allan Poe, Dickens and Hawthorne through Twain and Conan Doyle to Hammett, Chandler and Christie.
364 pages, 30 b/w illus.
| Media | Books Paperback Book (Book with soft cover and glued back) |
| Released | January 22, 2004 |
| ISBN13 | 9780521527620 |
| Publishers | Cambridge University Press |
| Pages | 364 |
| Dimensions | 230 × 153 × 21 mm · 564 g |
| Language | English |
| Series Editor | Beer, Gillian |