The Detective as Historian: History and Art in Historical Crime FictionRay B. Browne, Lawrence A. Kreiser, Jr University of Wisconsin Pres, 2013 - 320 Seiten 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. |
Inhalt
Introduction Ray B Browne and Lawrence A Kreiser Jr | 1 |
Detection in the Land of Mysteries Rita Rippetoe | 11 |
Detecting in the Final Decades of the Roman Republic Terrance L Lewis | 22 |
Falco Cynical Detective in a Corrupt Roman Empire Peter Hunt | 32 |
Sister Fidelma and the Triumph of Truth Christiane W Luehrs and Robert B Luehrs | 45 |
Brother Cadfael Edward J Rielly | 60 |
Hugh Corbett SecretAgent and ProblemSolver Edward L Meek Theron M Westerwelt David N Eldridge | 76 |
Doctor Matthew Bartholomew Master of Medicine and Detection Jean Coakley | 85 |
The Saga of the Dutchman Frank A Salamone | 169 |
Sir Henry Fielding and Blind Justice Donna Bradshaw Smith | 175 |
A Genealogy of Detection in the Eighteenth Century Scott R Christianson | 186 |
An EighteenthCentury Midwife Marie Nelson | 202 |
ReInventing Jane Austen as Detective Anita Vickers | 213 |
Where Have All the Dandies Gone? Jerry L Parker | 222 |
Sleuths and Carpetbaggers along the Mississippi River Lawrence A Kreiser Jr | 230 |
Mark Twain as Detective Ray B Browne and Lawrence A Kreiser Jr | 240 |
The Name of the Rose Judy Ann Ford | 95 |
Detection in the Italian Renaissance Jeffrey A RydbergCox | 111 |
Sister Frevisse and Medieval Mysteries Patricia W Julius | 122 |
The Case of Richard III R Gordon Kelly | 133 |
Kathryn Swinbrook FifteenthCentury Physician and Sleuth Jean Coakley | 147 |
The Recollections of Shallot David N Eldridge Theron M Westerwelt Edward L Meek | 156 |
Running Away from the Darkness Douglas Tallack | 251 |
Victorian Istorian and Murdermonger Linda J HollandToll | 265 |
No Cribbing on History Margaret L Foxwell | 283 |
The Last Camel Died at Noon as Lost World Adventure Pastiche Gary Hoppenstand | 293 |
Contributors | 306 |
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The Detective as Historian: History and Art in Historical Crime Fiction, Band 1 Ray B. Browne,Lawrence A. Kreiser, Jr Eingeschränkte Leseprobe - 2000 |
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