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The Nineteenth Century Periodical Press and the Development of Detective Fiction (Routledge Studies in Nineteenth Century Literature) - Softcover

Book 64 of 70: Routledge Studies in Nineteenth Century Literature

Saunders, Samuel

 
9780367769079: The Nineteenth Century Periodical Press and the Development of Detective Fiction (Routledge Studies in Nineteenth Century Literature)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0367769077 ISBN 13: 9780367769079
Publisher: Routledge, 2023

Synopsis

This book re-imagines nineteenth-century detective fiction as a literary genre that was connected to, and nurtured by, contemporary periodical journalism. Whilst ‘detective fiction’ is almost universally-accepted to have originated in the nineteenth century, a variety of widely-accepted scholarly narratives of the genre’s evolution neglect to connect it with the development of a free press.

The volume traces how police officers, detectives, criminals, and the criminal justice system were discussed in the pages of a variety of magazines and journals, and argues that this affected how the wider nineteenth-century society perceived organised law enforcement and detection. This, in turn, helped to shape detective fiction into the genre that we recognise today. The book also explores how periodicals and newspapers contained forgotten, non-canonical examples of ‘detective fiction’, and that these texts can help complicate the narrative of the genre’s evolution across the mid- to late nineteenth century.

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About the Author

Samuel Saunders holds a PhD in English from Liverpool John Moores University, which he obtained in 2018 after defending a thesis that examined nineteenth-century crime and detective fiction and its connections with Victorian journalism and print culture. He has published research in numerous peer-reviewed journals such as the Journal of Popular Culture, the Wilkie Collins Journal, Law, Crime and History, and the journal of the Open Library of the Humanities, and has co-edited a collection on sidekicks in crime fiction. Samuel has taught English at both LJMU and the Unviersity of Chester, has acted as a guest professor for the Ohio State University, and is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (FHEA).

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Publisher
Routledge
Publication date
2023
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0367769077
ISBN 13 
9780367769079
Binding
Paperback
Edition number
1
Number of pages
256