Nineteenth-Century suspense :
Nineteenth-Century suspense : from Poe to Conan Doyle /
edited by Clive Bloom ... [et al.].
- New York : St. Martin's Press, 1988.
- ix, 139 p. ; 23 cm.
Includes bibliographies and index.
Edgar Allan Poe : tales of dark heat / David Punter -- Capitalising on Poe's detective : the dollars and sense of nineteenth-century detective fiction / Clive Bloom -- Figuring out the signalman : Dickens and the ghost story / Gary Day -- Wilkie Collins in the 1860s : the sensation novel and self-help / Nick Rance -- Sexual politics and political repression in Bram Stoker's Dracula / Anne Cranny-Francis -- The vampire in the looking-glass : reflection and projection in Bram Stoker's Dracula / Philip Martin -- Arthur Conan Doyle's The parasite : the case of the anguished author / Anne Cranny-Francis -- The lost world : Conan Doyle and the suspense of evolution / Howard Davies -- The house that Jack built : Jack the Ripper, legend, and the power of the unknown / Clive Bloom.
0312016778 :
87033631
Detective and mystery stories, English--History and criticism.
Detective and mystery stories, American--History and criticism.
English fiction--19th century--History and criticism.
American fiction--History and criticism.--19th century
Popular literature--History and criticism.--English-speaking countries
823.087208 / BLO-N
Includes bibliographies and index.
Edgar Allan Poe : tales of dark heat / David Punter -- Capitalising on Poe's detective : the dollars and sense of nineteenth-century detective fiction / Clive Bloom -- Figuring out the signalman : Dickens and the ghost story / Gary Day -- Wilkie Collins in the 1860s : the sensation novel and self-help / Nick Rance -- Sexual politics and political repression in Bram Stoker's Dracula / Anne Cranny-Francis -- The vampire in the looking-glass : reflection and projection in Bram Stoker's Dracula / Philip Martin -- Arthur Conan Doyle's The parasite : the case of the anguished author / Anne Cranny-Francis -- The lost world : Conan Doyle and the suspense of evolution / Howard Davies -- The house that Jack built : Jack the Ripper, legend, and the power of the unknown / Clive Bloom.
0312016778 :
87033631
Detective and mystery stories, English--History and criticism.
Detective and mystery stories, American--History and criticism.
English fiction--19th century--History and criticism.
American fiction--History and criticism.--19th century
Popular literature--History and criticism.--English-speaking countries
823.087208 / BLO-N