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Formal Investigations: Aesthetic Style in Late-Victorian and Edwardian Detective Fiction
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Formal Investigations: Aesthetic Style in Late-Victorian and Edwardian Detective Fiction
About this book
The essays in this revised and expanded volume explore a variety of structuring taxonomies, the relationships between the aesthetic forms, styles and methodologies of detective and crime fiction in the late-Victorian and Edwardian period. The influences on the artists in the genre are as varied as the interests of the period in scientific method, forensics, archaeology, aesthetics, medicine, and the paranormal. But the formalizing tendencies of investigative process remain, and it is this adherence, in artist and detective alike, to seeing crime and its resolution as a stylistic imposition of structure on disorder that is under examination.
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Table of contents
- Contents
- No Respecter of Class: The Ubiquitous Appeal of Late-Victorian Crime Fiction
- Horrifying Ho(l)mes: Conan Doyleâs Bachelor Detective and the Aesthetics of Domestic Realism
- Algernon Blackwoodâs Modernist Experiments in Psychical Detection
- Devolved Forms: Aesthetic Solutions to the Contentious Style of Arthur Machenâs âThe Great God Panâ
- Double Lives, Terrible Pleasures: Oscar Wilde and Crime Fiction in the Fin de Siècle
- The Medical Detective and the Victorian Fear of Degeneration
- The Science of Detection: Geology and Aesthetics in Victorian and Edwardian Detective Fiction
- Interpreting the Work of Art and Reading Clues: Aesthetics and Detection in Wilkie Collinsâ The Law and the Lady
- The Art of Murder and Fine Furniture: The Aesthetic Projects of Anna Katharine Greenand Charles Rohlfs
- Domesticating the Art of Detection: Ellen Woodâs Johnny Ludlow Series
- âThe Accomplished Forms of Human Lifeâ: The Art and the Aesthetics of the Female Detective
- Trentâs Last Case: Murder, Modernism, Meaning
- Contributors