{"product_id":"detective-fiction-and-the-rise-of-forensic-science-paperback-9780521527620","title":"Detective Fiction and the Rise of Forensic Science (Paperback) 9780521527620","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eDetective Fiction and the Rise of Forensic Science\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe relationship between the development of forensic science and the new literary genre of detective fiction in Britain and America.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eRonald R. Thomas (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780521527620, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback, published 22 January 2004\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e364 pages, 30 b\/w illus.\u003cbr\u003e23.1 x 15.2 x 2.2 cm, 0.55 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e'Detective Fiction and the Rise of Forensic Science is a major achievement.' Semiotica\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eThis is a book about the relationship between the development of forensic science in the nineteenth century and the invention of the new literary genre of detective fiction in Britain and America. Ronald R. Thomas examines the criminal body as a site of interpretation and enforcement in a wide range of fictional examples, from Poe, Dickens and Hawthorne through Twain and Conan Doyle to Hammett, Chandler and Christie. He is especially concerned with the authority the literary detective manages to secure through the 'devices' - fingerprinting, photography, lie detectors - with which he discovers the truth and establishes his expertise, and the way in which those devices relate to broader questions of cultural authority at decisive moments in the history of the genre. This is an interdisciplinary project, framing readings of literary texts with an analysis of contemporaneous developments in criminology, the rules of evidence, and modern scientific accounts of identity.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e1. The devices of truth\u003cbr\u003e Part I. Tell-Tale Hearts: 2. The lie detector and the thinking machine\u003cbr\u003e 3. The unequal voice in 'The Murders in the Rue Morgue'\u003cbr\u003e 4. The letter of the law in The Woman in White\u003cbr\u003e 5. The criminal type in 'A Case of Identity'\u003cbr\u003e 6. The voice of America in Red Harvest\u003cbr\u003e Part II. Arresting Shots: 7. The mug shot and the magnifying glass\u003cbr\u003e 8. Photographic memories in Bleak House\u003cbr\u003e 9. Double exposure in The House of the Seven Gables\u003cbr\u003e 10. Negative images in 'A Scandal in Bohemia'\u003cbr\u003e 11. Empty cameras in The Big Sleep and Farewell My Lovely\u003cbr\u003e Part III. Identifying Marks: 12. The fingerprint and the map of crime\u003cbr\u003e 13. Foreign bodies in A Study in Scarlet and The Sign of Four\u003cbr\u003e 14. Accusing hands in Puddn'head Wilson\u003cbr\u003e 15. International plots in The Maltese Falcon and Murder on the Orient Express\u003cbr\u003e 16. Missing persons and secret agents\u003cbr\u003e Selected works for further reading.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Literary studies: fiction, novelists \u0026amp; prose writers [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Literary studies: fiction, novelists \u0026amp; prose writers\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Literary%20studies:%20fiction,%20novelists%20\u0026amp;%20prose%20writers%20%5BDSK%5D%22\"\u003eDSK\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46002870386968,"sku":"9780521527620","price":32.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/products\/9780521527620i_42e39753-81c5-4fe0-847c-c55035f5990f.jpg?v=1691368942","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/detective-fiction-and-the-rise-of-forensic-science-paperback-9780521527620","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}