Nineteenth-Century suspense : from Poe to Conan Doyle / edited by Clive Bloom [and others]

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Bibliographic Details
Alternate Title:19th-century suspense.
Other Authors: Bloom, Clive
Format: Book
Language:English
Published:New York : St. Martin's Press, 1988.
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Table of Contents:
  • 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.