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Nineteenth-Century Suspense From Poe To Conan Doyle

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  • © 1988

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Editors:
  1. Clive Bloom

    1. Middlesex Polytechnic, UK

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  2. Brian Docherty
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  3. Jane Gibb
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  4. Keith Shand
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Table of contents (9 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-ix
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  2. Edgar Allan Poe: Tales of Dark Heat

    • David Punter
    Pages 1-13

  3. Capitalising on Poe’s Detective: the Dollars and Sense of Nineteenth-Century Detective Fiction

    • Clive Bloom
    Pages 14-25

  4. Figuring out the Signalman: Dickens and the Ghost Story

    • Gary Day
    Pages 26-45

  5. Wilkie Collins in the 1860s: the Sensation Novel and Self-Help

    • Nick Rance
    Pages 46-63

  6. Sexual Politics and Political Repression in Bram Stoker’s Dracula

    • Anne Cranny-Francis
    Pages 64-79

  7. The Vampire in the Looking-Glass: Reflection and Projection in Bram Stoker’s Dracula

    • Philip Martin
    Pages 80-92

  8. Arthur Conan Doyle’s The Parasite: the Case of the Anguished Author

    • Anne Cranny-Francis
    Pages 93-106

  9. The Lost World: Conan Doyle and the Suspense of Evolution

    • Howard Davies
    Pages 107-119

  10. The House that Jack Built: Jack the Ripper, Legend and the Power of the Unknown

    • Clive Bloom
    Pages 120-137

  11. Back Matter

    Pages 138-139
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Editors and Affiliations

  • Middlesex Polytechnic, UK

    Clive Bloom

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Nineteenth-Century Suspense From Poe To Conan Doyle

  • Editors: Clive Bloom, Brian Docherty, Jane Gibb, Keith Shand

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-19218-2

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London

  • eBook Packages: Palgrave Literature & Performing Arts Collection, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 1988

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-349-19218-2Published: 04 May 1988

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: IX, 139

  • Topics: Fiction

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