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"Taking a slightly new approach to a staple subject of literary studies, the author identifies detective fiction as an inherently interdiscursive genre whose etiological narrative emerges in literary as well as scientific texts from the second half of the 19th century onwards. The volume focuses on the scientific fields of evolutionary theory, archaeology, bacteriology, and psychoanalysis, shedding a literary light on works by Charles Darwin, Robert Koch, Heinrich Schliemann, and Sigmund Freud. Literary works analysed range from well-known and beloved representatives of detective fiction such as Arthur Conan Doyle's ""The Hound of the Baskervilles"" (1902) to more rarely discussed texts such as Theodor Fontane's ""Unterm Birnbaum"" (1885)."

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