Dlb 70: British Mystery Writers, 1860-1919

by Bernard Benstock

This is the first DLB volume of a planned series on British mystery writers. Because there has been little scholarship devoted to individual mystery writers except for the most prominent, this volume is particularly useful as a stimulus to further study. Mystery fiction arose in Britain when the middle 19th-century phenomenon of middle-culture literary art blurred the distinction between serious literature and popular fiction. With prose fiction,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0810317486
• ISBN13: 9780810317482
• Release Date: June 1988
• Publisher: Gale Cengage
• Length: 344 Pages
• Weight: 3.70 lbs.