| Formal Investigations: Aesthetic Style in Late-Victorian and Edwardian Detective Fiction Revised, Expand Edition Contributor(s): Fox, Paul (Editor), Melikoğlu, Koray (Editor) |
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ISBN: 3838205936 ISBN-13: 9783838205939 Publisher: Ibidem Press OUR PRICE: $38.61 Product Type: Paperback Published: May 2014 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh - Literary Criticism | Mystery & Detective Fiction - History | Modern - 19th Century |
| Series: Studies in English Literatures |
| Physical Information: 0.7" H x 5.8" W x 8.2" (0.83 lbs) 270 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - British Isles - Chronological Period - 19th Century |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: These essays explore the taxonomies and relationships between the aesthetic forms, styles, and methodologies of detective and crime fiction in the late-Victorian and Edwardian period. The influences on the genre's artists are as varied as the era's interests in scientific method, forensics, archaeology, medicine, and the paranormal. Yet the formalizing tendencies of the investigative process remain, and this volume examines the understanding of crime's resolution as a stylistic imposition of structure on disorder. |