The essays in this volume explore a variety of structuring taxonomies, the relationships between the aesthetic forms, styles and methodologies of detective and crime fiction in the late-Victorian and Edwardian period. The influences on the artists in the genre are as varied as the interests of the period in scientific method, forensics, archaeology, aesthetics, medicine, and the paranormal. But the formalizing tendencies of investigative process remain, and it is this adherence, in artist and detective alike, to seeing crime and its resolution as a stylistic imposition of structure on disorder that is under examination.
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Language English ● Format PDF ● Pages 286 ● ISBN 9783838255934 ● File size 1.3 MB ● Editor Paul Fox & Koray Melikoglu ● Publisher ibidem ● Published 2012 ● Downloadable 24 months ● Currency EUR ● ID 2495836 ● Copy protection Social DRM