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The Detective as Historian: History and Art in Historical Crime Fiction
University of Wisconsin Press, 2000 eISBN: 978-0-87972-881-6 | Paper: 978-0-87972-816-8 | Cloth: 978-0-87972-815-1 Library of Congress Classification PR830.D4D39 2000 Dewey Decimal Classification 813.087209358
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Readers of detective stories are turning more toward historical crime fiction to learn both what everyday life was like in past societies and how society coped with those who broke the laws and restrictions of the times. The crime fiction treated here ranges from ancient Egypt through classical Greece and Rome; from medieval and renaissance China and Europe through nineteenth-century England and America. Topics include: Ellis Peter’s Brother Cadfael; Umberto Eco’s Name of the Rose; Susanna Gregory’s Doctor Matthew Bartholomew; Peter Heck’s Mark Twain as detective; Anne Perry and her Victorian-era world; Caleb Carr’s works; and Elizabeth Peter’s Egyptologist-adventurer tales. See other books on: Browne, Ray B. | Detective and mystery stories, American | Detective and mystery stories, English | English-speaking countries | Literature and history See other titles from University of Wisconsin Press |
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The Detective as Historian: History and Art in Historical Crime Fiction
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University of Wisconsin Press, 2000
eISBN: 978-0-87972-881-6
Paper: 978-0-87972-816-8
Cloth: 978-0-87972-815-1
eISBN: 978-0-87972-881-6
Paper: 978-0-87972-816-8
Cloth: 978-0-87972-815-1
Readers of detective stories are turning more toward historical crime fiction to learn both what everyday life was like in past societies and how society coped with those who broke the laws and restrictions of the times. The crime fiction treated here ranges from ancient Egypt through classical Greece and Rome; from medieval and renaissance China and Europe through nineteenth-century England and America.
Topics include: Ellis Peter’s Brother Cadfael; Umberto Eco’s Name of the Rose; Susanna Gregory’s Doctor Matthew Bartholomew; Peter Heck’s Mark Twain as detective; Anne Perry and her Victorian-era world; Caleb Carr’s works; and Elizabeth Peter’s Egyptologist-adventurer tales.
Topics include: Ellis Peter’s Brother Cadfael; Umberto Eco’s Name of the Rose; Susanna Gregory’s Doctor Matthew Bartholomew; Peter Heck’s Mark Twain as detective; Anne Perry and her Victorian-era world; Caleb Carr’s works; and Elizabeth Peter’s Egyptologist-adventurer tales.
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