The Detective as Historian, Volume 2

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Ray Browne, Lawrence Kreiser
Cambridge Scholars Publishing, Mar 26, 2009 - Literary Criticism - 240 pages
"Deeper understanding of history is enhanced by encasing it in art and interest. Crime fiction is one of the widest and most rapidly growing forms of literature. Historical crime fiction serves effectively the double purpose of entertaining while it teaches. The "truth" of the narrative account, the editors of this volume believe, is dependent on the understanding of human nature reflected in the author who writes the narrative.

"Historical crime fiction," the editors of this volume write, "has an obligation and a golden opportunity. It must bring the past up to the present through the device of timeless crime and it must take the reader into the world about which is being written so that the characters are alive and the events interesting and challenging."

Professional writers of fiction need to be more effective than mere authors of dates and assumed motivations. Therefore they can fill in human motivations and drives where no records exist and can aid the professional historians in what historian David Thelen calls the "challenge of history " which is "to recover the past and [interpret it for] the present." The essays in this volume accept the challenge and make major accomplishments for meeting it.

 

Selected pages

Contents

DAVID WISHART
1
ROSEMARY ROWE
16
SHARON KAY PENMAN
31
CAROLINE ROE
46
SLEUTHING FOR THE UNION
58
A MURDEROUS REGIMENT OF WOMEN
71
ROBIN PAIGE AND DIANNE DAY
141
CHARLES TODD
156
BARBARA HAMBLY
173
MARGARET COEL
186
LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS
199
SELECT GENERAL BIBLIOGRAPHY
201
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About the author (2009)

Ray B. Browne Co-founded the Popular Culture Association and established the American Culture Association, which he served as Secretary-Treasurer for 40 and 28 years respectively. He is the author or editor of some 70 books and numerous articles on American/Popular culture and established the Journal of Popular Culture, which he edited for 40 years and The Journal of American Culture, until his academic retirement. The Ray and Pat Browne Popular Culture Library at Bowling Green State University is named in his and his wife, Pat's, honor.

Lawrence A. Kreiser, Jr. Has a Ph.D. from the University of Alabama in military history. He is active in the Civil War and Reconstruction periods in history/culture. He co-edited Volume One of

The Detective as Historian: History and Art in Historical Crime Fiction, Bowling Green University Popular Press (2000).

Bibliographic information

TitleThe Detective as Historian, Volume 2
The detective as historian
EditorsRay Browne, Lawrence Kreiser
Editionreprint
PublisherCambridge Scholars Publishing, 2009
ISBN1443807559, 9781443807555
Length240 pages
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