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These essays explore the taxonomies and relationships between the aesthetic forms, styles, and methodologies of detective and crime fiction in the late-Victorian and Edwardian period. The influences on the genre's artists are as varied as the era's interests in scientific method, forensics, archaeology, medicine, and the paranormal. Yet the formalizing tendencies of the investigative process remain, and this volume examines the understanding of crime's resolution as a stylistic imposition of structure on disorder.

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These important essays underscore how much our understanding of genre owes to the influence of mass culture on the establishment of literary hierarchies. English Literature in Transition, 1880-1920

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Paul Fox (Ph.D. University of Georgia) is an Associate Professor at East Georgia College. He has published articles upon fin-de-siecle aesthetics, Walter Pater, Oscar Wilde and J. M. Barrie. He is currently completing a book-length study of Decadence and aesthetic time. Koray Melikoglu (Magister Artium Free University Berlin) has published on Kazuo Ishiguro and Shakespeare and edited a volume on life writing.

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