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The Ascent of the Detective

Author : Haia Shpayer-Makov
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191620300
Total Pages : 444 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (916 download)

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Download or read book The Ascent of the Detective written by Haia Shpayer-Makov and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2011-09-29 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The figure of the detective has long excited the imagination of the wider public, and the English police detective has been a special focus of attention in both print and visual media. Yet, while much has been written in the last three decades about the history of uniformed policemen in England, no similar work has focused on police detectives. The Ascent of the Detective redresses this by exploring the diverse and often arcane world of English police detectives during the formative period of their profession, from 1842 until the First World War, with special emphasis on the famed detective branch established at Scotland Yard. The book starts by illuminating the detectives' socioeconomic background, how and why they became detectives, their working conditions, the differences between them and uniformed policemen, and their relations with the wider community. It then goes on to trace the factors that shaped their changing public image, from the embodiment of 'un-English' values to plebeian knights in armour, investigating the complex and symbiotic exchange between detectives and journalists, and analysing their image as it unfolded in the press, in literature, and in their own memoirs.

Bloodhounds of Heaven

Author : Ian Ousby
Publisher : Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Bloodhounds of Heaven written by Ian Ousby and published by Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1976 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Road

Author : Libby T. Nance
Publisher : Tate Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1598867881
Total Pages : 512 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (988 download)

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Download or read book The Road written by Libby T. Nance and published by Tate Publishing. This book was released on 2007-08 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Road takes you on Lacey's journey and leaves you wanting a deeper understanding of the significance of each character to Lacey, why some love her unconditionally while others hate her innocence. The Road for Lacey Rutledge begins with her first memory at two years old and maps the path she travels within a small town in Western North Carolina. Raised by her parents, grandparents and extended family, as was common in the 30s, her story is filled with colorful characters who unknowingly help establish the woman she becomes. Her Pappy is a man deeply devoted to the things of God and captures Lacey's complete affection, thus causing her to search for her own spiritual destiny. However, having that pure heart of a child, but faced with a world of prejudiced views, Lacey finds herself being singled out by a town full of preconceived ideas and religious bigotry, fighting for what is right and against those things that are wrong in the eyes of God.

A Study in Scarlet

Author : Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0198856040
Total Pages : 193 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (988 download)

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Download or read book A Study in Scarlet written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2023-03-09 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "There's the scarlet thread of murder running through the colourless skein of life." In Arthur Conan Doyle's A Study in Scarlet a popular cultural phenomenon is born. We meet two of the most famous characters in modern literary history: the consulting detective Sherlock Holmes and John Watson, an army doctor home on sick leave, for the first time. Through Watson we learn a little about the eccentric figure who is his new room-mate at 221B Baker Street, before they encounter their first case: an American visitor to the city has been killed in an empty house off the Brixton Road, and the only clue the police have is the mysterious word 'Rache', scrawled in blood-red letters on the wall. As Holmes sets to work with his unique forensic methods, behind the murder a tangled skein of love, religion, and revenge gradually unwinds, taking us from the streets of London to the Utah Territory, and back again. As Nicholas Daly's Introduction describes, out of this gripping tale grew the Holmes and Watson stories that would make Conan Doyle the best-paid author of his time. His creations have become household words, inspiring not only countless adaptations and imitations, but a Sherlock Holmes museum, Sherlock Holmes-themed pubs, and a whole array of Holmesian merchandise, from cushions to jigsaw puzzles. Here, though, we meet Holmes and Watson before they became famous, and we can see how their extraordinary impact on our popular culture derives from the late-Victorian world from which they emerge.

Angels and heaven

Author : Thomas Mills
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 446 pages
Book Rating : 4.R/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book Angels and heaven written by Thomas Mills and published by . This book was released on 1872 with total page 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Fact and Feeling

Author : Jonathan Smith
Publisher : Univ of Wisconsin Press
ISBN 13 : 9780299143541
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (435 download)

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Download or read book Fact and Feeling written by Jonathan Smith and published by Univ of Wisconsin Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Considering science as a form of cultural discourse like literature, music, and religion, explores the contacts and affinities between scientists and humanists in 19th-century Britain. The topics include Baconian induction, romantic methodologies of poetry and science, the uniformitarian imagination and The Voyage of the Beagle, John Ruskin, Edwin Abbot, and the quintessential Victorian merging of science and literature, Sherlock Holmes. Paper edition (unseen), $22.95. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

The Cambridge Companion to Crime Fiction

Author : Martin Priestman
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521008716
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (87 download)

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Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to Crime Fiction written by Martin Priestman and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2003-11-06 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Companion covers British and American crime fiction from the eighteenth century to the end of the twentieth. As well as discussing the 'detective' fiction of writers like Arthur Conan Doyle, Agatha Christie and Raymond Chandler, it considers other kinds of fiction where crime plays a substantial part, such as the thriller and spy fiction. It also includes chapters on the treatment of crime in the eighteenth-century literature, French and Victorian fiction, women and black detectives, crime on film and TV, police fiction and postmodernist uses of the detective form.

The Invention of Murder

Author : Judith Flanders
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 1250024889
Total Pages : 570 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book The Invention of Murder written by Judith Flanders and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2013-07-23 with total page 570 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Superb... Flanders's convincing and smart synthesis of the evolution of an official police force, fictional detectives, and real-life cause célèbres will appeal to devotees of true crime and detective fiction alike." -Publishers Weekly, starred review In this fascinating exploration of murder in nineteenth century England, Judith Flanders examines some of the most gripping cases that captivated the Victorians and gave rise to the first detective fiction Murder in the nineteenth century was rare. But murder as sensation and entertainment became ubiquitous, with cold-blooded killings transformed into novels, broadsides, ballads, opera, and melodrama-even into puppet shows and performing dog-acts. Detective fiction and the new police force developed in parallel, each imitating the other-the founders of Scotland Yard gave rise to Dickens's Inspector Bucket, the first fictional police detective, who in turn influenced Sherlock Holmes and, ultimately, even P.D. James and Patricia Cornwell. In this meticulously researched and engrossing book, Judith Flanders retells the gruesome stories of many different types of murder in Great Britain, both famous and obscure: from Greenacre, who transported his dismembered fiancée around town by omnibus, to Burke and Hare's bodysnatching business in Edinburgh; from the crimes (and myths) of Sweeney Todd and Jack the Ripper, to the tragedy of the murdered Marr family in London's East End. Through these stories of murder-from the brutal to the pathetic-Flanders builds a rich and multi-faceted portrait of Victorian society in Great Britain. With an irresistible cast of swindlers, forgers, and poisoners, the mad, the bad and the utterly dangerous, The Invention of Murder is both a mesmerizing tale of crime and punishment, and history at its most readable.

Staging Detection

Author : Isabel Stowell-Kaplan
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000418774
Total Pages : 173 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (4 download)

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Download or read book Staging Detection written by Isabel Stowell-Kaplan and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-07-29 with total page 173 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Staging Detection reveals how the new figure of the stage detective emerged in nineteenth-century Britain. The first book to explore the productive intersections between detection and performance across a range of Victorian plays, Staging Detection foregrounds the role of the stage detective in shaping important theatrical modes of the period, from popular melodrama to society comedy. Beginning in 1863 with Tom Taylor’s blockbuster play, The Ticket-of-Leave Man, the book criss-crosses London following the earliest performances of stage detectives. Centring the work of playwrights, novelists, critics and actors, from Sarah Lane and Horace Wigan to Wilkie Collins and Oscar Wilde, Staging Detection sheds new light on Victorian acting styles, furthers our understanding of melodrama, and resituates the famous Wildean dandy as a successor to the stage detective. Drawing on histories of masculinity and gender performance as well as developing scientific theory and nineteenth-century visual culture, Staging Detection shows how the earliest stage portrayals of the detective shaped broader Victorian debates concerning fraud, omniscience and earned authority. This book will be of great interest to students and scholars of theatre history, Victorian literature and popular culture – as well as anyone with an interest in the figure of the detective.

Slavery, Surveillance and Genre in Antebellum United States Literature

Author : Kelly Ross
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0192856278
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (928 download)

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Download or read book Slavery, Surveillance and Genre in Antebellum United States Literature written by Kelly Ross and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2022-10-30 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Slavery, Surveillance, and Genre in Antebellum United States Literature argues for the existence of deep, often unexamined, interconnections between genre and race by tracing how surveillance migrates from the literature of slavery to crime, gothic, and detective fiction. Attending to the long history of surveillance and policing of African Americans, the book challenges the traditional conception of surveillance as a top-down enterprise, equally addressing the tactics of sousveillance (watching from below) that enslaved people and their allies used to resist, escape, or merely survive racial subjugation. Examining the dialectic of racialized surveillance and sousveillance from fugitive slave narratives to fictional genres focused on crime and detection, the book shows how these genres share a thematic concern with the surveillance of racialized bodies and formal experimentation with ways of telling a story in which certain information is either rendered visible or kept hidden. Through close readings of understudied fugitive slave narratives published in the 1820s and 1830s, as well as texts by Edgar Allan Poe, Herman Melville, Frederick Douglass, Hannah Crafts, and Harriet Jacobs, Ross analyzes the different ways white and black authors take up these issues in their writing--from calming white fears of enslaved rebellion to abolishing slavery--and demonstrates how literary representations ultimately destabilize any clear-cut opposition between watching from above and below. In so doing, the book demonstrates the importance of race to surveillance studies and claims a greater role for the impact of surveillance on literary expression in the US during the era of slavery.

A Dog Is Listening

Author : Roger A. Caras
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 0671797263
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (717 download)

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Download or read book A Dog Is Listening written by Roger A. Caras and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 1993-03-10 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As readers of A Cat Is Watching know, Roger Caras has a special affinity with the animal kingdom. Now, in a winning mix of psychological insight, factual research, and personal, paws-on experience, Caras takes the reader into the special world of dogs. A noted wildlife author explores the canine world and reveals what they see, hear, feel, taste, and smell, and more, in a heartwarming guide to man's best friend accompanied by amusing stories.

Sherlock Holmes from Screen to Stage

Author : Benjamin Poore
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137469633
Total Pages : 259 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (374 download)

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Download or read book Sherlock Holmes from Screen to Stage written by Benjamin Poore and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-08-24 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book investigates the development of Sherlock Holmes adaptations in British theatre since the turn of the millennium. Sherlock Holmes has become a cultural phenomenon all over again in the twenty-first century, as a result of the television series Sherlock and Elementary, and films like Mr Holmes and the Guy Ritchie franchise starring Robert Downey Jr. In the light of these new interpretations, British theatre has produced timely and topical responses to developments in the screen Sherlocks’ stories. Moreover, stage Sherlocks of the last three decades have often anticipated the knowing, metafictional tropes employed by screen adaptations. This study traces the recent history of Sherlock Holmes in the theatre, about which very little has been written for an academic readership. It argues that the world of Sherlock Holmes is conveyed in theatre by a variety of games that activate new modes of audience engagement.

The Cambridge Companion to Sherlock Holmes

Author : Janice M. Allan
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107155851
Total Pages : 287 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (71 download)

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Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to Sherlock Holmes written by Janice M. Allan and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2019-05-02 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Accessible exploration of Sherlock Holmes and his relationship to late-Victorian culture as well as his ongoing significance and popularity.

The Ideas that Have Influenced Civilization, in the Original Documents

Author : Oliver Joseph Thatcher
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 458 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)

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Download or read book The Ideas that Have Influenced Civilization, in the Original Documents written by Oliver Joseph Thatcher and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The ancient world

Author : Oliver Joseph Thatcher
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 458 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book The ancient world written by Oliver Joseph Thatcher and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Library of Original Sources

Author : Oliver Joseph Thatcher
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 490 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)

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Download or read book The Library of Original Sources written by Oliver Joseph Thatcher and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 490 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The One Year Devos for Animal Lovers

Author : Dandi Daley Mackall
Publisher : Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1414331711
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (143 download)

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Download or read book The One Year Devos for Animal Lovers written by Dandi Daley Mackall and published by Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.. This book was released on 2010 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Animal lover and bestselling writer Mackall delivers a One Year devotion that uses animals to point to spiritual truths. Each devotion begins with a fun or interesting fact about an animal; this fact then introduces a concept of life and godliness that is reinforced by a scripture verse.