BIBLIOGRAPHY

Barzun, Jacques, and Wendel Hertig Taylor. A Catalogue of Crime. Revised and enlarged edition. New York: Harper & Row, 1989, 952 p.

Annotated bibliography of more than thirty-five thousand novels, short stories, anthologies, magazines, and dramas of detection, crime, mystery, and espionage, including secondary literature.

CRITICISM

Altick, Richard D. “Literature with a Sanguinary Cast.” In his Victorian Studies in Scarlet, pp. 76-85. New York: W. W. Norton & Co., 1970.

Examination of the subject of murder in the “penny dreadful,” the Newgate novel, and in the works of Dickens and Collins.

Barsham, Diana. “Tortured Bodies and Nervous Narratives: The Novels of the 1890s.” In Arthur Conan Doyle and the Meaning of Masculinity, pp. 143-86. Aldershot, England: Ashgate Publishing Limited, 2000.

Explains Doyle's ideas of masculinity in the context of his concern for women's social and personal rights.

Barzun, Jacques. “From Phèdre to Sherlock Holmes.” In his The Energies of Art: Studies of Authors Classic and Modern, pp. 303-23. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1956.

Outlines the history of detective fiction and suggests that strict conventions of the genre limited its development.

Bloom, Clive. “Reading and Death: Considering Detective Fiction in the Nineteenth Century.” In his The ‘Occult’ Experience and the New Criticism: Daemonism, Sexuality and the Hidden in Literature, pp. 80-89. Sussex, England: Harvester Press, 1986.

Considers the similarities between the structure of detective fiction narrative and the common subjects examined in detective fiction, such as murder vs. creation.

Borges, Jorge Luis. “The Labyrinths of the Detective Story and Chesterton.” In Jorge Luis Borges: Selected Non-Fictions, edited by Eliot Weinberger, pp. 112-14. New York: Penguin Books, 1999.

Observes that nineteenth-century sleuths imagined detection as an intellectual game, far removed from the reality of violence.

De Naples, Frederick. “Unearthing Holmes: 1890s Interpretations of the Great Detective.” In Transforming Genres: New Approaches to British Fiction in the 1890s, edited by Nikki Lee Manos and Meri-Jane Rochelson, pp. 215-35. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1994.

Explains how Doyle's detective Sherlock Holmes gradually became the archetypal detective in Victorian fiction.

Dorff, Susan L. “The French Connection.” The Armchair Detective 22, No. 4 (fall 1989): 374-80.

Provides a history of the French roman policier from its beginnings in the Mémoires of François Eugène Vidocq to modern examples of the genre.

Eco, Umberto, and Thomas A. Sebeok, eds. The Sign of Three: Dupin, Holmes, Peirce. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1983, 236 p.

Places the methods of reasoning used by the greatest Victorian sleuths in the context of modern logic and philosophy of science.

ffrench, Patrick. “Open Letter to Detectives and Psychoanalysts: Analysis and Reading.” In The Art of Detective Fiction, edited by Warren Chernaik, Martin Swales, and Robert Vilain, pp. 222-32. New York: St. Martin's Press, 2000.

Compares detective stories with psychoanalysis, remarking that both initially search for the truth but eventually embark on a vague quest for fulfillment.

Frank, Lawrence. Victorian Detective Fiction and the Nature of Evidence: The Scientific Investigations of Poe, Dickens, and Doyle. Doyle. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2000, 249 p..

Places primary works of Victorian detective fiction in the context of nineteenth century scientific theory and discovery.

Gilbert, Elliot L. “The Detective as Metaphor in the Nineteenth Century,” in Journal of Popular Culture 1, no. 3 (winter 1967): 256-62.

Examines the significance of the fictional detective in the nineteenth century as a symbol of both faith in and disillusionment with the powers of human reason.

Haining, Peter. “The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes.” In A Sherlock Holmes Compendium, edited by Peter Haining, pp. 135-42. London: W. H. Allen, 1980.

Sheds light on some of the remarkable sleuths created by Doyle's fellow-writers.

Joyce, Simon. “‘Lords of the Street, and Terrors of the Way’: The Privileged Offender in Late-Victorian Fiction.” In Capital Offenses: Geographies of Class and Crime in Victorian London, pp. 145-89. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2003.

Analyzes the singular phenomenon of the upper-class criminal in Victorian detective fiction.

Muller, John P., and William J. Richardson, eds. The Purloined Poe: Lacan, Derrida, and Psychoanalytic Reading. Baltimore, Md.: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1988, 394 p.

Psychoanalytic and deconstructionist readings of Poe's story “The Purloined Letter.”

Porter, Dennis. “Crime Literature.” In The Pursuit of Crime: Art and Ideology in Detective Fiction, pp. 11-23. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1981.

Discusses the literary and social context of nineteenth-century crime fiction, showing how classical novels, such as Victor Hugo's Les Misérables, reflect society's interest in crime.

Priestman, Martin. “Sherlock's Children: the Birth of the Series.” In The Art of Detective Fiction, edited by Warren Chernaik, Martin Swales, and Robert Vilain, pp. 50-9. New York: St. Martin's Press, Inc., 2000.

Discusses Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's contributions to the detective story, naming the creator of Sherlock Holmes as the true inventor of the series sub-genre of crime fiction.

Robert, Paul. “Those Eminent Victorians.” In Whatever Happened to Sherlock Holmes: Detective Fiction, Popular Theology, and Society, pp. 31-61. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1991.

Describes Victorian sleuths as complex personalities with singular insights into existential concerns.

Ross, Cheri L. “The First Feminist Detective: Anna Katharine Green's Amelia Butterworth.” Journal of Popular Culture 25, no. 2 (fall 1991): 77-8.

Asserts that Green “contributed greatly to the advancement of women's rights by breaking the stereotypic boundaries of acceptable behavior for women in her first Amelia Butterworth novel.”

Routledge, Christopher. “The Chevalier and the Priest: Deductive Method in Poe, Chesterton, and Borges.” Clues: A Journal of Detection 22, no. 1 (spring-summer 2001): 1-10.

Compares the self-confident rationalism of Poe's C. Auguste Dupin with the self-doubting sleuths in stories by Chesterton and Borges.

Sayers, Dorothy. Introduction to The Omnibus of Crime, pp. 9-46. New York: Payson and Clarke Ltd., 1929.

Discusses the early development of detective fiction, focusing on the seminal works of Edgar Allan Poe and Arthur Conan Doyle.

Woeller, Waltraud, and Bruce Cassiday. The Literature of Crime and Detection: An Illustrated History from Antiquity to the Present, translated by Ruth Michaelis-Jena and Willy Merson. New York: Ungar, 1988, 215 p.

History of detective fiction that includes discussion of the often overlooked German contributions to the genre.

Woods, Robin. “‘His Appearance Is Against Him’: The Emergence of the Detective.” In The Cunning Craft: Original Essays on Detective Fiction and Contemporary Literary Theory, edited by Ronald G. Walker and June M. Frazer, pp. 15-23. Macomb: Western Illinois University, 1990.

Discusses detective fiction in the context of institutional, societal, and popular perceptions of crime in Victorian England.