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Chemical crimes : science and poison in Victorian crime fiction
- Title
- Chemical crimes : science and poison in Victorian crime fiction / Cheryl Blake Price.
- Author
- Price, Cheryl Blake
- Publication
- Columbus : The Ohio State University Press, [2019]
- ©2019
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | JFE 19-7745 | Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 |
Details
- Description
- viii, 195 pages; 24 cm
- Summary
- "An exploration of poison's transformation into chemical crime in the nineteenth century and impact on crime fiction and Victorian perceptions of science. Examines the role of scientific criminals in the works of Letitia Elizabeth Landon, Ellen Wood, Edward Bulwer Lytton, L.T. Meade, Charles Warren Adams, and Wilkie Collins"--
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 179-189) and index.
- Contents
- "The science of murder": educating the female chemical criminal in L.E.L.'s Ethel Churchill and Bulwer's Lucretia -- Medical bluebeards: Gothic medicine and the poisoning doctor in the fiction of Ellen Wood -- Chemicalized bodies and criminal intent: unruly bodies and the limitations of forensic science in early detective fiction -- L.T. Meade's female mad scientists: science fiction and the transformation of the chemical criminal in fin de siècle detective fiction.
- Call Number
- JFE 19-7745
- ISBN
- 9780814213919
- 081421391X
- LCCN
- 2018046299
- OCLC
- 1048947662
- Author
- Price, Cheryl Blake, author.
- Title
- Chemical crimes : science and poison in Victorian crime fiction / Cheryl Blake Price.
- Publisher
- Columbus : The Ohio State University Press, [2019]
- Copyright Date
- ©2019
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 179-189) and index.
- Chronological Term
- 1800-1899
- Research Call Number
- JFE 19-7745