Robin Winks is an acknowledged authority on detective novels,
espionage fiction and the teaching of history. In 1981 he
developed a seminar at Yale which he called Society and the
Detective Novel. It is a bit much to hope for but I am
wondering if anyone on this List participated in that first
seminar? (I have a few questions in mind.) Prof. Winks had
earlier edited a book of essays entitled THE HISTORIAN AS
DETECTIVE: Essays on Evidence (1968) in which he introduced
his view that detective fiction has a place in the reading of
students and working historians. I think it fair to say that
the idea is now widely accepted. Are any of Prof. Winks ex
students subscribing to this List? Curious.
Ronald Jack
===== There ain't no sin and there ain't no virtue. There's
just stuff people do.
-John
Steinbeck, THE GRAPES OF WRATH
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