Title: Detection & Its Designs
First published: 1998
Description: > Detective fiction is usually thought of as genre fiction, a vast group of works bound together by their use of a common formula. But, as Peter Thoms argues in his investigation of some of the most important texts in the development of detective fiction in the nineteenth century, the very works that establish the genre's formulaic structure also subvert that structure.
Subjects: Detective and mystery stories, English, English Detective and mystery stories, English fiction, Fictional works, History, History and criticism, Narration (Rhetoric), Poe, edgar allan, 1809-1849, Detective and mystery stories, history and criticism, English fiction, history and criticism, 19th century
People: Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849)
Time periods: 19th century
LC classification: PR868.D4 T48 1998