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Fairground fiction : detective stories of the World's Columbian Exposition : containing reprints of Emma Murdoch Van Deventer's Against odds, a detective story, and John Harvey Whitson's Chicago Charlie, the Columbian detective / edited by Donald K. Hartman ; foreword by Carl S. Smith.
- Title
- Fairground fiction : detective stories of the World's Columbian Exposition : containing reprints of Emma Murdoch Van Deventer's Against odds, a detective story, and John Harvey Whitson's Chicago Charlie, the Columbian detective / edited by Donald K. Hartman ; foreword by Carl S. Smith.
- Publication
- Kenmore, N.Y. : Motif Press, 1992.
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- Description
- xiv, 450 p. : ill.; 21 cm.
- Summary
- " "Probably no event of its kind has had a more profound influence on the American imagination than the World's Columbian Exposition...' So writes Carl Smith in the foreword to Fairground Fiction, a collection of two novels inspired by the 1893 Chicago World's Fair. According to Smith, who is a Professor of English and American Culture at Northwestern University, much of the fiction devoted to the Columbian Exposition can best be described as fanciful romance, typically incorporating elements of courtship, mystery, and adventure - often all three - in intricate plots. As Professor Smith notes, both novels reflect the 'beliefs, hopes, fantasies, and fears' of the times in which they were written - and for that reason will be of interest to historians, sociologists, and literary scholars. But above all, these stories of romance, intrigue, and danger were written to entertain, and should thus appeal to a larger audience, one which delights in exciting plot lines and nostalgia for the past." --
- Series Statement
- Themes and settings in fiction series ; 1
- Uniform Title
- Themes and settings in fiction series 1.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Short stories
- Mystery fiction
- Fiction
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Against Odds : A Detective Story -- Something about the author of Against Odds -- Chicago Charlie : the Columbian Detective -- Something about the author of Chicago Charlie -- Map of the fairgrounds
- ISBN
- 0962958603
- 9780962958601
- LCCN
- ^^^91061998^
- OCLC
- 25309004
- SCSB-12482943
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library