Title: Nineteenth-century suspense :
Authors: Bloom, Clive
Date: 1988
Publisher: Macmillan,
Physical description: ix, 139 p. ; 23 cm.
Language: English
LC classification: P
Contents: Edgar Allan Poe : tales of dark heat / David Punter -- Capitalising on Poe's detective : the dollars and sense of nineteenth-century detective fiction / Clive Bloom -- Figuring out the signalman: Dickens and the ghost story / Gary Day -- Wilkie Collins in the 1860s : the sensation novel and self-help / Nick Rance -- Sexual politics and political repression in Brad Stoker's Dracula / Anne Cranny-Francis -- The vampire in the looking-glass : reflection and projection in Bram Stoker's Dracula / Philip Martin -- Arthur Conan Doyle's The parasite : the case of the anguished author / Anne Cranny-Francis -- The lost world : Conan Doyle and the suspense of evolution / Howard Davies -- The house that Jack built : Jack the Ripper, legend, and the power of the unknown / Clive Bloom.
Subject headings (LCSH): American fiction--19th century--History and criticism; Detective and mystery stories, American--History and criticism.; Detective and mystery stories, English--History and criticism.; English fiction--19th century--History and criticism