The Detective as Historian - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Detective as Historian write by Ray B. Browne. This book was released on 2013-02. The Detective as Historian available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Readers of detective stories are turning more toward historical crime fiction to learn both what everyday life was like in past societies and how society coped with those who broke the laws and restrictions of the times. The crime fiction treated here ranges from ancient Egypt through classical Greece and Rome; from medieval and renaissance China and Europe through nineteenth-century England and America. Topics include: Ellis Peter’s Brother Cadfael; Umberto Eco’s Name of the Rose; Susanna Gregory’s Doctor Matthew Bartholomew; Peter Heck’s Mark Twain as detective; Anne Perry and her Victorian-era world; Caleb Carr’s works; and Elizabeth Peter’s Egyptologist-adventurer tales.
The Figure of the Detective
The Figure of the Detective - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Figure of the Detective write by Charles Brownson. This book was released on 2014-01-16. The Figure of the Detective available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book begins with a history of the detective genre, coextensive with the novel itself, identifying the attitudes and institutions needed for the genre to emerge in its mature form around 1880. The theory of the genre is laid out along with its central theme of the getting and deployment of knowledge. Sherlock Holmes, the English Classic stories and their inheritors are examined in light of this theme and the balance of two forms of knowledge used in fictional detection--cool or rational, and warm or emotional. The evolution of the genre formula is driven by changes in the social climate in which it is embedded. These changes explain the decay of the English Classic and its replacement by noir, hardboiled and spy stories, to end in the cul-de-sac of the thriller and the nostalgic Neo-Classic. Possible new forms of the detective story are suggested.
U.S. History Detective
U.S. History Detective - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook U.S. History Detective write by Steve Greif. This book was released on 2015-03-01. U.S. History Detective available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
The Historian as Detective
The Historian as Detective - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Historian as Detective write by Robin W. Winks. This book was released on 1969. The Historian as Detective available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Essays by noted historians of the past and present, on the problems of investigation, offer a series of intriguing case studies in the relationship between historical research and detective fiction.
Cracking the Hard-Boiled Detective
Cracking the Hard-Boiled Detective - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Cracking the Hard-Boiled Detective write by Lewis D. Moore. This book was released on 2015-01-24. Cracking the Hard-Boiled Detective available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The hard-boiled private detective is among the most recognizable characters in popular fiction since the 1920s--a tough product of a violent world, in which police forces are inadequate and people with money can choose private help when facing threatening circumstances. Though a relatively recent arrival, the hard-boiled detective has undergone steady development and assumed diverse forms. This critical study analyzes the character of the hard-boiled detective, from literary antecedents through the early 21st century. It follows change in the novels through three main periods: the Early (roughly 1927-1955), during which the character was defined by such writers as Carroll John Daly, Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler; the Transitional, evident by 1964 in the works of John D. MacDonald and Michael Collins, and continuing to around 1977 via Joseph Hansen, Bill Pronzini and others; and the Modern, since the late 1970s, during which such writers as Loren D. Estleman, Liza Cody, Sara Paretsky, Sue Grafton and many others have expanded the genre and the detective character. Themes such as violence, love and sexuality, friendship, space and place, and work are examined throughout the text. Instructors considering this book for use in a course may request an examination copy here.
