Victorian Detective Fiction and the Nature of Evidence
Subtitle: The Scientific Investigations of Poe, Dickens, and Doyle (Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture)
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: August 4, 2009
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 264
ISBN-13: 9780230230309
Subjects: Literature & Fiction -- History & Criticism -- Criticism & Theory; Literature & Fiction -- World Literature -- British; Mystery & Thrillers -- Mystery -- Reference
First sentence: In The Dialogic Imagination Mikhail Bakhtin uses evolutionary metaphors to argue that as historical circumstances change, certain literary genres become extinct or endure at best as living fossils, while new genres appear in response to new and perplexing situations.