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A Counter-History of Crime Fiction

Part of the Crime Files Series Book Series

DOI: 10.1057/9780230234536

ISBN: 978-0-230-59462-3

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK - Springer Journals

Oct 9, 2015

1 - 10 of 10 Chapters

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Revising the Canon of Crime and Detection

Ascari, Maurizio

Pages: 1 –13

[As Hayden White claimed in Metahistory, every historical account combines a certain number of ‘data’ with ‘a narrative structure for their presentation’.1 So let us now adopt this ‘metahistorical’ perspective and briefly examine the traditional accounts of the development of detective fiction to...
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Detection before Detection

Ascari, Maurizio

Pages: 17 –40

[Those critics who take an encyclopaedic approach to crime fiction customarily cite among the sources of the genre two episodes from Genesis in the first book of the Bible, which can be read as the religious foundation myth of Western society. It is because of a crime — although in religious...
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Persecution and Omniscience

Ascari, Maurizio

Pages: 41 –54

[Persecution is a typical gothic theme, a display of evil power associated with dungeons and danger, and with a distorted view of religious or political orthodoxy. Following a tradition which is rooted in Renaissance tragedies, gothic novels are often set in Southern European countries and do not...
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Victorian Ghosts and Revengers

Ascari, Maurizio

Pages: 55 –65

[In May 1827 a country girl called Maria Marten mysteriously disappeared. Maria had actually been murdered by her lover, William Corder, but the truth came to light only in March 1828, when her stepmother repeatedly dreamt that the girl had been killed and buried in a barn. After the discovery of...
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Pseudo-Sciences and the Occult

Ascari, Maurizio

Pages: 66 –90

[In the course of the nineteenth century the increasing importance of science changed the role that ‘mystery’ played in the collective imagination. Even before Queen Victoria’s reign Thomas Carlyle had reassessed common religious and popular beliefs in a chapter of Sartor Resartus (1833–34)...
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The Language of Auguste Dupin

Ascari, Maurizio

Pages: 93 –109

[What is the language of Auguste Dupin?]
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On the Sensational in Literature

Ascari, Maurizio

Pages: 110 –132

[One can hardly study the development of nineteenth-century crime fiction without giving sensation fiction its due. After reaching its climax in the 1860s and 1870s, the sensation vogue lost momentum at the end of the century, precisely when detective fiction was asserting itself as a literary...
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London as a ‘Heart of Darkness’

Ascari, Maurizio

Pages: 133 –144

[The archetypal opposition between holy city and sin city is rooted in the Bible, where Jerusalem, the seat of the Temple, is contrasted with nests of wickedness such as Babel, whose punishment for the erection of its tower — an emblem of impious pride — is a relapse into a primordial chaos of...
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The Rhetoric of Atavism and Degeneration

Ascari, Maurizio

Pages: 145 –155

[The dream of being able to read the mind through the body — thus making ‘evil’ legible — has a long history. Physiognomy boasts an ancient lineage that can be traced back to Aristotle, but it was in the eighteenth century that the belief in the correspondence between the outer and inner nature...
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Conclusion: the Age of Formula Fiction

Ascari, Maurizio

Pages: 156 –174

[In my attempt to write a counter-history of crime fiction I have touched on a variety of sub-genres, including the ghost story, adventures of psychic detection, sensation fiction, the ‘literature’ of London and anarchist fiction, so as to shed light on the variety of discourses that intertwined...

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