Essays, Historical and Biographical, Political, Social, Literary and Scientific

2019-08-14
 |  History
Essays, Historical and Biographical, Political, Social, Literary and Scientific

Author: Hugh Miller

Publisher:

ISBN: 0461142341

Category: History

Page: 522

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Victorian Detective Fiction and the Nature of Evidence

2003-07-02
 |  Fiction
Victorian Detective Fiction and the Nature of Evidence

Author: L. Frank

Publisher: Springer

ISBN: 9781403919328

Category: Fiction

Page: 249

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Frank investigates an intertextual exchange between nineteenth-century historical disciplines (philology, cosmology, geology archaeology and evolutionary biology) and the detective fictions of Poe, Dickens, and Doyle. In responding to the writings of figures like Lyell, Darwin and E.B. Taylor, detective fiction initiated a transition from scriptural literalism and a prevailing Natural Theology to a naturalistic, secular worldview. In the process, detective fiction sceptically examined both the evidence such disciplines used and their narrative rendering of the world.