Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture: The Scientific Investigations of Poe, Dickens, and Doyle

Frank, L.

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 sceptically examined both the evidence such disciplines used and their narrative rendering of the world.

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Published by: Palgrave Macmillan

Publication Date: 2003-07-02

Format: Paperback

ISBN-13: 9780230230309

DOI: 10.1057/9781403919328

Dimensions: 216cm x140cm

Pages: 249