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BL
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722740
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b542452
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| Main Entry
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Clare Clarke.
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Late-Victorian crime fiction in the shadows of Sherlock\ Clare Clarke.
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| Publication Statement
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Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014
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| Series Statement
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Crime files series.
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| ISBN
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0230390544
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: 9780230390546
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| Contents
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Introduction --;1.'Ordinary Secret Sinners': Robert Louis Stevenson's "Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr. Hyde" (1886). --;2.'The most popular book of modern times': Fergus Hume's "The Mystery of a Hansom Cab" (1886). --;3.'"L'homme c'est rien --;l'oeuvre c'est tout"': the Sherlock Holmes stories and work. --;4. Something for 'the silly season': Policing and the Press in Israel Zangwill's "The Big Bow Mystery "(1891). --;5. Tales of 'mean streets': the criminal-detective in Arthur Morrison's "The Dorrington Deed-Box" (1897). --;6.A Criminal in Disguise': class and empire in Guy Boothby's "A Prince of Swindlers" (1897).
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This book investigates the development of crime fiction in the 1880s and 1890s, challenging studies of late-Victorian crime fiction which have given undue prominence to a handful of key figures and have offered an over-simplified analytical framework, thereby overlooking the generic, moral, and formal complexities of the nascent genre.
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Detective and mystery stories, English -- History and criticism.
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English fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticism.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
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| LC Classification
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PR878.D4C537 2014
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Clare Clarke
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