In this Book
- The Detective as Historian: History and Art in Historical Crime Fiction
- Book
- 2013
- Published by: University of Wisconsin Press
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.
Topics include: Ellis Peter’s Brother Cadfael; Umberto Eco’s Name of the Rose; Susanna Gregory’s Doctor Matthew Bartholomew; Peter Heck’s Mark Twain as detective; Anne Perry and her Victorian-era world; Caleb Carr’s works; and Elizabeth Peter’s Egyptologist-adventurer tales.
Topics include: Ellis Peter’s Brother Cadfael; Umberto Eco’s Name of the Rose; Susanna Gregory’s Doctor Matthew Bartholomew; Peter Heck’s Mark Twain as detective; Anne Perry and her Victorian-era world; Caleb Carr’s works; and Elizabeth Peter’s Egyptologist-adventurer tales.
Table of Contents
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- Introduction
- pp. 1-10
- Ellis Peters: Brother Cadfael
- pp. 60-75
- Umberto Eco: The Name of the Rose
- pp. 95-110
- Michael Clynes: The Recollections of Shallot
- pp. 156-168
- Maan Meyers: The Saga of the Dutchman
- pp. 169-174
- Kate Ross: Where Have All the Dandies Gone?
- pp. 222-229
- Peter Heck: Mark Twain as Detective
- pp. 240-250
- Caleb Carr: Running Away from the Darkness
- pp. 251-264
- Peter Lovesey: No Cribbing on History
- pp. 283-292
- Contributors
- pp. 306-310
Additional Information
ISBN
9780879728816
Related ISBN(s)
9780879728151, 9780879728168
MARC Record
OCLC
606514983
Pages
320
Launched on MUSE
2014-01-01
Language
English
Open Access
No
Copyright
2000