Samuel Saunders

The Nineteenth Century Periodical Press and the Development of Detective Fiction (eBook, PDF)

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Produktbeschreibung

This book re-imagines nineteenth-century detective fiction as a literary genre that was connected to, and nurtured by, contemporary periodical journalism.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. Mai 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780429672514
• Artikelnr.: 61335592

Autorenporträt

Samuel Saunders holds a PhD in English from Liverpool John Moores University, which he obtained in 2018 after defending a thesis that examined nineteenth-century crime and detective fiction and its connections with Victorian journalism and print culture. He has published research in numerous peer-reviewed journals such as the Journal of Popular Culture, the Wilkie Collins Journal, Law, Crime and History, and the journal of the Open Library of the Humanities, and has co-edited a collection on sidekicks in crime fiction. Samuel has taught English at both LJMU and the Unviersity of Chester, has acted as a guest professor for the Ohio State University, and is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (FHEA).

Inhaltsangabe

List of Figures
Acknowledgements
Introduction: Victorian Policing and Victorian Periodicals
Part 1: Policing and Crime in Periodicals
Chapter 1: Periodical Discourse on Policing: c. 1850-1875
Chapter 2: 'A Condemned Cell with a View': Crime Journalism c. 1750-1880
Part 2: Memoirs and Sensations
Chapter 3: '"Detective" literature, if it may be so called': The Police
Officer and the Police Memoir
Chapter 4: 'The Romance of the Detective': Police Memoir Fiction and
Sensation Fiction
Part 3: From Scandal to the Strand Magazine
Chapter 5: '...people are naturally distrustful of its future working': The
1877 Detective Scandal in the Victorian Mass Media
Chapter 6: From 'Handsaw' to Holmes: Police Officers and Detectives in
Late-Victorian Journalism
Conclusion
Index

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List of Figures

Acknowledgements

Introduction: Victorian Policing and Victorian Periodicals

Part 1: Policing and Crime in Periodicals

Chapter 1: Periodical Discourse on Policing: c. 1850-1875

Chapter 2: 'A Condemned Cell with a View': Crime Journalism c. 1750-1880

Part 2: Memoirs and Sensations

Chapter 3: '"Detective" literature, if it may be so called': The Police Officer and the Police Memoir

Chapter 4: 'The Romance of the Detective': Police Memoir Fiction and Sensation Fiction

Part 3: From Scandal to the Strand Magazine

Chapter 5: '...people are naturally distrustful of its future working': The 1877 Detective Scandal in the Victorian Mass Media

Chapter 6: From 'Handsaw' to Holmes: Police Officers and Detectives in Late-Victorian Journalism

Conclusion

Index