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Detection and Its Designs - Narrative and Power in Nineteenth-Century Detective Fiction (Hardcover)
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Detection and Its Designs - Narrative and Power in Nineteenth-Century Detective Fiction (Hardcover)
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Detective fiction is usually thought of as genre fiction, a vast
group of works bound together by their use of a common formula.
But, as Peter Thoms argues in his investigation of some of the most
important texts in the development of detective fiction in the
nineteenth century, the very works that establish the genre's
formulaic structure also subvert that structure. "Detection and Its
Designs" reads early detective fiction as a self-conscious form
that is suspicious of the detective it ostensibly celebrates, and
critical of the authorial power he wields in attempting to
reconstruct the past and script a narrative of the crime.
In readings of Godwin's "Caleb Williams," Poe's Dupin stories,
Dickens's "Bleak House," Collins's "The Moonstone," and Doyle's
"The Hound of the Baskervilles," Thoms argues that the detective's
figurative writing emerges out of a desire to exert control over
others and sometimes over himself.
"Detection and Its Designs" demonstrates that, far from being a
naive form, early detective fiction grapples with the medium of
storytelling itself. To pursue these inward-turning fictions is to
uncover the detective's motives of controlling the representation
of both himself and others, a discovery that in turn significantly
undermines the authority of his solutions.
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