Before Sherlock Holmes
Subtitle: how magazines and newspapers invented the detective story
By: LeRoy Lad Panek
Publisher: McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Jefferson, N.C
Language: eng
Number of pages: 230
ISBN-13: 9780786467877
Subjects: History and criticism; English periodicals; Publishing; Detectives in literature; English Detective and mystery stories; Periodicals; Crime in literature; American Detective and mystery stories; American periodicals; English fiction; American fiction; History
Description: "This volume surveys the first fifty years of the detective story in nineteenth-century America and England, examining not only major works, but also the lesser known--including contemporary pseudo-biographies, magazines, story papers, and newspapers--recently accessible through new media. By rewriting the history of the mystery genre, this study opens up new avenues for literary exploration"--Provided by publisher.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Life before detectives; title: Edgar Allan Poe; title: Notebooks; title: Charles Dickens; title: Collins and the sensation novel; title: Magazines and family story papers; title: Newspaper detectives.