
The Detective as Historian
Lawrence Kreiser(Author)
Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Published on 31. May 2007
Book
Hardback
240 pages
978-1-84718-126-8 (ISBN)
Description
'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.
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Edition
Unabridged edition
Language
English
Place of publication
Newcastle upon Tyne
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Edition type
Unabridged edition
Product notice
With dust jacket
Dimensions
Height: 212 mm
Width: 148 mm
ISBN-13
978-1-84718-126-8 (9781847181268)
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Ray B. Browne | Jr Lawrence A. Kreiser
Detective as Historian
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03/2009
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Persons
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 ofThe Detective as Historian: History and Art in Historical Crime Fiction, Bowling Green University Popular Press (2000).