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- Chemical Crimes: Science and Poison in Victorian Crime Fiction
- Publication Date
- 2019-03-08
- Pages
- 204
- ISBN
- 9780814213919
- Publication Year
- 2019
- Type
- Textbook
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Publication Name
- Chemical Crimes : Science and Poison in Victorian Crime Fiction
- Item Height
- 0.7in
- Item Length
- 9in
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- Ohio State University Press
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- 6in
- Number of Pages
- 204 Pages
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In Chemical Crimes: Science and Poison in Victorian Crime Fiction , Cheryl Blake Price delves into the dark world of Victorian criminality to examine how poison allowed authors to disrupt gender boundaries, genre, and the professionalization of science. Tracing the role of the chemical crime through the works of Letitia Elizabeth Landon, Ellen Wood, Edward Bulwer Lytton, L. T. Meade, Charles Warren Adams, and Wilkie Collins, Price argues that poison this intervention not only provided a useful tool for authors to challenge the growing power of science but also that its fluid nature and ability to mix, mingle, and transcend boundaries made it ideal for generic experimentation. From the Newgate and Silver Fork novels of the 1830s to the emergent genres of science and detective fiction of the 1890s, Price advocates for the classification of a new type of poisoner, one who combined crime with methodical scientific know-how: the chemical criminal. Chemical Crimes shows how authors used the subversiveness of chemical crimes to challenge the supposed disciplinary force of forensic detection and suggests that generic developments were inspired as much by criminal scientific innovation as they were by the rise of the detective-scientist. By focusing on chemical crime's appearance at significant moments, this book traces how reactions to Victorian science inspired change in nineteenth-century crime fiction.
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Publisher
Ohio State University Press
ISBN-10
081421391x
ISBN-13
9780814213919
eBay Product ID (ePID)
19038794208
Product Key Features
Publication Name
Chemical Crimes : Science and Poison in Victorian Crime Fiction
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Publication Year
2019
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
204 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
9in
Item Height
0.7in
Item Width
6in
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Pr878.C74p75 2019
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"Provides a genuinely fresh appraisal of literature and science and a fresh look at the evolution of fiction across the period." --Marlene Tromp, coeditor of Fear, Loathing, and Victorian Xenophobia (OSU Press, 2013), "Refocusing crime fiction on the criminal and not the detective allows Price to offer a more nuanced understanding of how scientific professionalization was imagined and challenged in fiction (particularly with regard to gender), and how that professionalization informed genre experimentation within crime fiction....[This] is a thoughtful and engaging study of Victorian science and fiction that will be of use to literary scholars and historians alike." --Amanda M. Caleb, H-Net, " Chemical Crimes is a readable and intriguing work of scholarship . Summing up: Recommended." -- CHOICE
Table of Content
Acknowledgments Introduction The Victorian Chemical Criminal Chapter 1 "The Science of Murder": Educating the Female Chemical Criminal in L. E. L.'s Ethel Churchill and Bulwer's Lucretia Chapter 2 Medical Bluebeards: Gothic Medicine and the Poisoning Doctor in the Fiction of Ellen Wood Chapter 3 Chemicalized Bodies and Criminal Intent: Unruly Bodies and the Limitations of Forensic Science in Early Detective Fiction Chapter 4 L. T. Meade's Female Made Scientists: Science Fiction and the Transformation of the Chemical Criminal in Fin-De-Siècle Detective Fiction Afterword Bibliography Index
Copyright Date
2019
Target Audience
Scholarly & Professional
Topic
Mystery & Detective, General, Subjects & Themes / General, European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
Lccn
2018-046299
Dewey Decimal
823/.087209008
Dewey Edition
23
Genre
Literary Criticism
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