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The Rise of the Detective in Early Nineteenth-Century Popular Fiction

Part of the Crime Files Series Book Series

DOI: 10.1057/9780230506282

ISBN: 978-1-349-52042-8

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK - Springer Journals

Oct 3, 2015

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Chapter 1Introduction

Worthington, Heather

Pages: 1 –5

[The traditional narrative of the development of crime fiction as a literary genre follows a well-trodden, not to say beaten, path from Vidocq through Poe and on to Conan Doyle in what is a retrospective reconstruction of events. Through the lens of the fully fashioned, archetypal detective...
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Chapter 2Criminal Narratives: Textualising Crime

Worthington, Heather

Pages: 6 –45

[A broadside is an unfolded sheet of paper with printed matter on one side only—a proclamation, poster, handbill, or ballad-sheet. The form had been in existence since the sixteenth century, when the new printing technology made possible the production of almost instantaneous accounts of matters...
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Chapter 3Making the Case for the Professionals

Worthington, Heather

Pages: 46 –102

[Samuel Warren was an important and popular literary figure in the nineteenth century, an author whose reputation as a fiction writer briefly rivalled that of Dickens. His popularity was short-lived: as C. R. B. Dunlop observes, ‘Warren’s reputation was at its height during the 1840s and 1850s,...
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Chapter 4A Conspicuous Constabulary: or, Why Policemen Wear Tall Helmets

Worthington, Heather

Pages: 103 –169

[The police are noticeably absent from the criminography of the 1820s and early 1830s. A conspicuous constabulary they certainly were in terms of their physical presence on the streets of London; but in the contemporary literature they were conspicuous rather by their absence, existing at best as...
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Chapter 5Conclusion

Worthington, Heather

Pages: 170 –173

[It seems that by the mid-nineteenth century a criminographical floodgate had been opened. The popularity of the Waters stories and Dickens’s ‘Detective’ Anecdotes of 1850–1853 led to a flourishing sub-literary culture of fictional detective reminiscences. There was a proliferation of texts...

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