简介
Nominated for the Mystery Writers of America 'Edgar Awards'! A Counter-History of Crime Fiction takes a new look at the evolution of crime fiction, drawing on material from the Middle Ages up to the early Twentieth century, when the genre was theoretically defined as detective fiction. Considering 'criminography' as a system of inter-related, even incestuous, sub-genres, Maurizio Ascari explores the connections between modes of literature such as revenge tragedies and providential fictions, the gothic and the ghost story, urban mysteries and anarchist fiction, while taking into account the influence of pseudo-sciences such as mesmerism and criminal anthropology.
目录
Acknowledgements p. viii
Introduction p. x
Revising the Canon of Crime and Detection p. 1
From detective to crime fiction p. 5
Blurring the boundaries p. 8
A glance at the present p. 11
Supernatural and Gothic
Detection before Detection p. 17
Dreams and detection p. 19
Ghosts, politics and revenge p. 21
'Providential fictions' p. 26
Crime literature between tragedy and comedy p. 31
The Newgate Calendars p. 34
Towards the 'professional case' p. 37
The aesthetics of murder p. 39
Persecution and Omniscience p. 41
The enlightened ideal of 'secular omniscience' p. 42
The dark side of omniscience p. 45
Preternatural powers p. 46
Probability vs chance p. 50
Secret societies, the city and the sublime p. 52
Victorian Ghosts and Revengers p. 55
A 'ghost story' of crime and detection p. 56
Dreams, dead witnesses and daring women p. 58
The return of the revenger p. 63
Pseudo-Sciences and the Occult p. 66
Mesmerism, murder and mystery p. 69
Mesmeric villains p. 72
The 'other' Doyle p. 75
Towards psychic detection p. 77
Professionals of the occult p. 82
Fabricated apparitions p. 87
Sensational
The Language of Auguste Dupin p. 93
Narrative metamorphoses p. 93
Citizens of Cosmopolis p. 96
An American and Paris p. 98
The strange case of Wilkie Collins and M. Forgues p. 103
M. Gaboriau and the 'unknown public' p. 106
A metropolitan genesis p. 107
On the Sensational in Literature p. 110
Between romance and journalism p. 110
The sensation recipe p. 114
Women as sensation writers and readers p. 116
Sensationalism, degeneration and modernity p. 117
Sensational canons p. 118
A prophecy p. 122
From amateur to professional detective p. 124
Parodies and adaptations p. 127
London as a 'Heart of Darkness' p. 133
Exotic colonies p. 135
The explorer p. 137
The ethnologist p. 139
The missionary p. 140
The city disease p. 141
Before the apocalypse p. 143
The Rhetoric of Atavism and Degeneration p. 145
Lombroso's anarchists and saints p. 148
Between genius and madness p. 149
The shady apostle of degeneration p. 150
Decadent detectives p. 152
Conclusion: the Age of Formula Fiction p. 156
The Sherlock Holmes 'myth' p. 156
Nightmares and orthodoxy p. 159
Britain under threat p. 161
Towards a conservative view of detection p. 165
The role of anthologies p. 167
Detection and modernism p. 170
Reading in the age of Cultural Studies p. 172
Notes p. 175
Bibliography p. 197
Index p. 213
Introduction p. x
Revising the Canon of Crime and Detection p. 1
From detective to crime fiction p. 5
Blurring the boundaries p. 8
A glance at the present p. 11
Supernatural and Gothic
Detection before Detection p. 17
Dreams and detection p. 19
Ghosts, politics and revenge p. 21
'Providential fictions' p. 26
Crime literature between tragedy and comedy p. 31
The Newgate Calendars p. 34
Towards the 'professional case' p. 37
The aesthetics of murder p. 39
Persecution and Omniscience p. 41
The enlightened ideal of 'secular omniscience' p. 42
The dark side of omniscience p. 45
Preternatural powers p. 46
Probability vs chance p. 50
Secret societies, the city and the sublime p. 52
Victorian Ghosts and Revengers p. 55
A 'ghost story' of crime and detection p. 56
Dreams, dead witnesses and daring women p. 58
The return of the revenger p. 63
Pseudo-Sciences and the Occult p. 66
Mesmerism, murder and mystery p. 69
Mesmeric villains p. 72
The 'other' Doyle p. 75
Towards psychic detection p. 77
Professionals of the occult p. 82
Fabricated apparitions p. 87
Sensational
The Language of Auguste Dupin p. 93
Narrative metamorphoses p. 93
Citizens of Cosmopolis p. 96
An American and Paris p. 98
The strange case of Wilkie Collins and M. Forgues p. 103
M. Gaboriau and the 'unknown public' p. 106
A metropolitan genesis p. 107
On the Sensational in Literature p. 110
Between romance and journalism p. 110
The sensation recipe p. 114
Women as sensation writers and readers p. 116
Sensationalism, degeneration and modernity p. 117
Sensational canons p. 118
A prophecy p. 122
From amateur to professional detective p. 124
Parodies and adaptations p. 127
London as a 'Heart of Darkness' p. 133
Exotic colonies p. 135
The explorer p. 137
The ethnologist p. 139
The missionary p. 140
The city disease p. 141
Before the apocalypse p. 143
The Rhetoric of Atavism and Degeneration p. 145
Lombroso's anarchists and saints p. 148
Between genius and madness p. 149
The shady apostle of degeneration p. 150
Decadent detectives p. 152
Conclusion: the Age of Formula Fiction p. 156
The Sherlock Holmes 'myth' p. 156
Nightmares and orthodoxy p. 159
Britain under threat p. 161
Towards a conservative view of detection p. 165
The role of anthologies p. 167
Detection and modernism p. 170
Reading in the age of Cultural Studies p. 172
Notes p. 175
Bibliography p. 197
Index p. 213
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