Frank investigates an intertextual exchange between nineteenth-century historical disciplines (philology, cosmology, geology, archaeology and evolutionary biology) and the detective fictions of Poe, Dickens, and Doyle. In responding to the writings of figures like Lyell, Darwin and E.B. Taylor, detective fiction initiated a transition from scriptural literalism and a prevailing Natural Theology to a naturalistic, secular worldview. In the process, detective fiction skeptically examined both the evidence such disciplines used and their narrative rendering of the world.
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'Frank's Victorian Detective Fiction will appeal to historians of science and literary scholars... His analysis is extremely skilful, well written and convincingly argued'
- Anne Schwan, Journal of Victorian Culture
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Lawrence Frank is Emeritus Professor of English, University of Oklahoma.
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In The Dialogic Imagination Mikhail Bakhtin uses evolutionary metaphors to argue that as historical circumstances change, certain literary genres become extinct or endure at best as living fossils, while new genres appear in response to new and perplexing situations. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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Bleak House, Edwin Drood, Natural Theology, Sherlock Holmes, Rue Morgue, Victorian Detective Fiction, Origin of Species, Esther Summerson, Grimpen Mire, Lady Dedlock, Adam Sedgwick, William Legrand, William Whewell, Sir Henry, Charles Lyell, Martyrdom of Man, Auguste Dupin, Principles of Geology, Primitive Culture, Temple of Jupiter Serapis, Winwood Reade, Temple of Serapis, Arthur Conan Doyle, Charles Darwin, Edgar Allan Poe New!
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In The Dialogic Imagination Mikhail Bakhtin uses evolutionary metaphors to argue that as historical circumstances change, certain literary genres become extinct or endure at best as living fossils, while new genres appear in response to new and perplexing situations. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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Bleak House, Edwin Drood, Natural Theology, Sherlock Holmes, Rue Morgue, Victorian Detective Fiction, Origin of Species, Esther Summerson, Grimpen Mire, Lady Dedlock, Adam Sedgwick, William Legrand, William Whewell, Sir Henry, Charles Lyell, Martyrdom of Man, Auguste Dupin, Principles of Geology, Primitive Culture, Temple of Jupiter Serapis, Winwood Reade, Temple of Serapis, Arthur Conan Doyle, Charles Darwin, Edgar Allan Poe New!
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- Murders in the Rue Morgue by Edgar Allan Poe on 14 pages
- Principles of Geology (Penguin Classics) by Charles Lyell on 12 pages
- The Antiquity of Man by Charles Lyell on 10 pages
- The Mystery of Edwin Drood (New Oxford Illustrated Dickens) by Charles Dickens on 9 pages
- Martyrdom of Man by Winwood Reade on 6 pages
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