Nineteenth-Century suspense
Subtitle: from Poe to Conan Doyle
By: edited by Clive Bloom ... [et al.].
Contributors: Bloom, Clive.
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Published: 1988
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 139
Subjects: Detective and mystery stories, English -- History and criticism.; Detective and mystery stories, American -- History and criticism.; English fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticism.; American fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticism.; Popular literature -- English-speaking countries -- History and criticism.
Other titles: 19th-century suspense.
Notes: Includes bibliographies and index.
Table of contents: title: Edgar Allan Poe : tales of dark heat / David Punter; title: Capitalising on Poe's detective : the dollars and sense of nineteenth-century detective fiction / Clive Bloom; title: Figuring out the signalman : Dickens and the ghost story / Gary Day; title: Wilkie Collins in the 1860s : the sensation novel and self-help / Nick Rance; title: Sexual politics and political repression in Bram Stoker's Dracula / Anne Cranny-Francis; title: The vampire in the looking-glass : reflection and projection in Bram Stoker's Dracula / Philip Martin; title: Arthur Conan Doyle's The parasite : the case of the anguished author / Anne Cranny-Francis; title: The lost world : Conan Doyle and the suspense of evolution / Howard Davies; title: The house that Jack built : Jack the Ripper, legend, and the power of the unknown / Clive Bloom.