Crime Fiction 1800-2000 Stephen Knight

Been doing more reading. The development of detective and police stories was a whole lot different than the impression I'd got from my other reading. There were women detectives! In the 1800s! Why didn't I know that in time to do the presentation? Because someone else had the one and only copy of this book out I guess.

Found a thing:

In 1827, Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine printed a story by Henry Thomson called 'Le Revenant', which was so popular it also appeared as a prose broadside in drastically shortened and not very comprehensible form. It is not the ghost story it sounds like: rather it is about a man who has been hanged, and survived.

*looks at recent movie*

I see what you did there.

*thumbs up*


I'm only up to about page 50 and I keep getting distracted as per usual, but it's a very good book so far. Lots more diversity and tracing the literary equivalent of family trees.