The Detective As Historian: History and Art in Historical Crime Fiction,9780879728151

The Detective As Historian: History and Art in Historical Crime Fiction

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ISBN13: 9780879728151
ISBN10: 0879728159
Format: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2001-04-01
Publisher(s): Univ of Wisconsin Pr
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Summary

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.

Table of Contents

Preface ix
Robin W. Winks
Introduction
1(10)
Ray B. Browne
Lawrence A. Kreiser, Jr.
Lynda S. Robinson and Lauren Haney: Detection in the Land of Mysteries
11(11)
Rita Rippetoe
John Maddox Roberts and Steven Saylor: Detecting in the Final Decades of the Roman Republic
22(10)
Terrance L. Lewis
Lindsey Davis: Falco, Cynical Detective in a Corrupt Roman Empire
32(13)
Peter Hunt
Peter Tremayne: Sister Fidelma and the Triumph of Truth
45(15)
Christiane W. Luehrs
Robert B. Luehrs
Ellis Peters: Brother Cadfael
60(16)
Edward J. Rielly
P. C. Doherty: Hugh Corbett, Secret-Agent and Problem-Solver
76(9)
Edward L. Meek
Theron M. Westervelt
David N. Eldridge
Susanna Gregory: Doctor Matthew Bartholomew, Master of Medicine and Detection
85(10)
Jean Coakley
Umberto Eco: The Name of the Rose
95(16)
Judy Ann Ford
Elizabeth Eyre: Detection in the Italian Renaissance
111(11)
Jeffrey A. Rydberg-Cox
Margaret Frazer: Sister Frevisse and Medieval Mysteries
122(11)
Patricia W. Julius
Josephine Tey and Others: The Case of Richard III
133(14)
R. Gordon Kelly
C. L. Grace: Kathryn Swinbrook, Fifteenth-Century Physician and Sleuth
147(9)
Jean Coakley
Michael Clynes: The Recollections of Shallot
156(13)
David N. Eldridge
Theron M. Westervelt
Edward L. Meek
Maan Meyers: The Saga of the Dutchman
169(6)
Frank A. Salamone
Bruce Alexander: Sir Henry Fielding and Blind Justice
175(11)
Donna Bradshaw Smith
Keith Heller: A Genealogy of Detection in the Eighteenth Century
186(16)
Scott R. Christianson
Margaret Lawrence: An Eighteenth-Century Midwife
202(11)
Marie Nelson
Stephanie Barron: (Re)Inventing Jane Austen as Detective
213(9)
Anita Vickers
Kate Ross: Where Have All the Dandies Gone?
222(8)
Jerry L. Parker
James Brewer: Sleuths and Carpetbaggers along the Mississippi River
230(10)
Lawrence A. Kreiser, Jr.
Peter Heck: Mark Twain as Detective
240(11)
Ray B. Browne
Lawrence A. Kreiser, Jr.
Caleb Carr: Running Away from the Darkness
251(14)
Douglas Tallack
Anne Perry: Victorian 'Istorian and Murdermonger
265(18)
Linda J. Holland-Toll
Peter Lovesey: No Cribbing on History
283(10)
Margaret L. Foxwell
Elizabeth Peters: The Last Camel Died at Noon as Lost World Adventure Pastiche
293(13)
Gary Hoppenstand
Contributors 306

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