Formal Investigations: Aesthetic Style in Late-Victorian and Edwardian Detective Fiction
Download or Read eBook Formal Investigations: Aesthetic Style in Late-Victorian and Edwardian Detective Fiction PDF written by Paul Fox and published by ibidem-Verlag / ibidem Press. This book was released on 2014-05-01 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
| Author | : Paul Fox |
| Publisher | : ibidem-Verlag / ibidem Press |
| Total Pages | : 285 |
| Release | : 2014-05-01 |
| ISBN-10 | : 9783838265933 |
| ISBN-13 | : 3838265939 |
| Rating | : 4/5 (33 Downloads) |
Book Synopsis Formal Investigations: Aesthetic Style in Late-Victorian and Edwardian Detective Fiction by : Paul Fox
Book excerpt: The essays in this revised and expanded volume explore a variety of structuring taxonomies, the relationships between the aesthetic forms, styles and methodologies of detective and crime fiction in the late-Victorian and Edwardian period. The influences on the artists in the genre are as varied as the interests of the period in scientific method, forensics, archaeology, aesthetics, medicine, and the paranormal. But the formalizing tendencies of investigative process remain, and it is this adherence, in artist and detective alike, to seeing crime and its resolution as a stylistic imposition of structure on disorder that is under examination.
