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Informationen zum Autor The late LeRoy Lad Panek, professor emeritus of English at McDaniel College (and "One of the most readable, prolific, and perceptive academic scholars of mystery fiction"--Mystery Scene and Edgar Award winner), was the author of a number of books about detective fiction. He lived in Westminster, Maryland. Klappentext Edgar Allan Poe essentially invented the detective story in 1841 with Murders in the Rue Morgue. In the years that followed, however, detective fiction in America saw no significant progress as a literary genre. Much to the dismay of moral crusaders like Anthony Comstock, dime novels and other sensationalist publications satisfied the public's hunger for a yarn. Things changed as the century waned, and eventually the detective was reborn as a figure of American literature. In part these changes were due to a combination of social conditions, including the rise and decline of the police as an institution; the parallel development of private detectives; the birth of the crusading newspaper reporter; and the beginnings of forensic science. Influential, too, was the new role model offered by a wildly popular British import named Sherlock Holmes. Focusing on the late 19th century and early 20th, this volume covers the formative years of American detective fiction. Instructors considering this book for use in a course may request an examination copy here. Zusammenfassung Covers the formative years of American detective fiction! and the societal forces which changed the sensation-laden detective narrative of the mid-19th century to the modern detective story in the years after World War I. This book examines elements which influenced the writers! and also looks at the beginnings of forensic science and criminology. Inhaltsverzeichnis Table of ContentsPreface 1. The First Fifty Years 2. Enter the Great Detective 3. Why Not Cops? 4. The Scientist Hero? 5. New Science and Pseudo Science 6. Journalists and Journalism 7. The Private Eye 8. Women 9. Lawyers and the Law 10. Everybody Else 11. Last Thoughts Works Cited Index ...
