“The Murders in the Rue Morgue.” Poe himself could have named his 1841 short story “The Murders of the Ladies l'Espanaye” or “Dupin's Deductions,” but instead he tapped into and reinforced a French cultural habit of identifying crimes ...
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Language: en
Pages: 304
Pages: 304
Taking Edgar Allan Poe's 1841 "The Murders in the Rue Morgue" as an inaugural frame, Andrea Goulet traces shifting representations of violence, space, and nation in French crime fiction from serial novels of the 1860s to cyberpunk fictions today. She argues that the history of spatial sciences—geology, paleontology, cartography—helps elucidate
Language: en
Pages: 320
Pages: 320
An intricate and provocative journey through nineteenth-century depictions of food and the often uncomfortable feelings they evoke At a time when chefs are celebrities and beautifully illustrated cookbooks, blogs, and Instagram posts make our mouths water, scholar Marni Reva Kessler trains her inquisitive eye on the depictions of food in
Language: en
Pages: 192
Pages: 192
How does the imagination work? How can it lead to both reverie and scientific insight? In this book, Kieran M. Murphy sheds new light on these perennial questions by showing how they have been closely tied to the history of electromagnetism. The discovery in 1820 of a mysterious relationship between
Language: en
Pages: 215
Pages: 215
Criminal Moves is a ground-breaking collection of essays that challenges the distinction between literary and popular fiction and proposes that crime fiction is a genre that constantly violates its own boundaries. Reorienting crime fiction studies towards the mobility of the genre, it has profound ramifications for how we read individual
Language: en
Pages: 352
Pages: 352
Filled with passion, love, and suspense, The Phantom of the Opera is a thrilling classic. Rumors abound that the Paris Opera House is haunted by a ghost. Nobody has ever seen it, but it makes itself known through malevolent acts. First published in book form in 1911, this gothic novel