From the Sublime to City Crime
Maurizio Ascari - Stephen Knight -
E-BOOK
The authors and cultural formations under discussion in "From the Sublime to City Crime" are much more than the pre-modernism of detective-focused crime fiction. They testify to the strength and power of the sublime forces of both awe and fear that were potent in the early nineteenth century and have remained the dialectical dynamic of the genre, both stimulating and making exciting the containment provided by the rationalistic elements of cerebral, quasi-scientific and triumphantly individualistic detection. As these early criminographers grappled with the interface of rational discourse and subliminal passions, from the hopeful errancy of Caleb Williams to the media’s attempt to confront and contain the murderous Maria Manning, as narratives from disciplinary medicine and law confronted human aberrance, as Balzac predicted the "roman noir" and 19th century Scandinavians pointed to Stieg Larsson, they all realised the deep and dangerous world of modern crime, physical and emotional, and brought the genre of crime fiction into existence in a blasted Eden – which it has never ceased to celebrate.
ISBN: 978-2-36580-153-9
Studies in Romanticism, Boston University (Summer 2016): click here
The book is also available in printed edition.
Each essay is available in separated e-book:
Maurice Hindle, "Theatres of calamity: Godwin, Burke, and the language of gothic": click here
Katie Garner, "Mary Wollstonecraft's Sublime crimes": click here
Alessandra Calanchi, "Tender is the wild: subliminal soundscapes and the aural sublime in Charles Brockden Brown's proto-crime fiction": click here
Matthew McGuire, "Crime fiction and the radical Sublime: Godwin, Hogg and De Quincey": click here
Maurizio Ascari, "In pursuit of the Sublime: De Quincey and the Romantics' methaphysical conception of crime": click here
Struan Sinclair, "'An apartment so bedizzened': Edgar Allan Poe's superperceivers": click here
Giacomo Mannironi, "Criminal ambitions: the young Balzac and the influence of British Romanticism": click here
Yvonne Leffler, "Early crime fiction in Nordic literature": click here
David Levente Palatinus, "Primum non nocere - Autopsy, 'bad medicine' and the body in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth centuries": click here
Heather Worthington, "Repression and transgression in Samuel Warren's 'The Bracelets' and 'Passages from the Diary of a Late Physician'": click here
Stephen Knight, "The mysteries of the cities and the myth of urban Gothic": click here
Anna Kay, "The black ghost of Bermondsey: Maria Manning and the popular Sublime": click here
Release date: 01/10/2014
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