Jess,
Many thanks for your extended and enlightening answer! I
found in your text what I needed to know about DEADWOOD DICK,
and even more...
What you described about your new book, THE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF
FANTASTIC VICTORIANA, just increased my interest for it! I
especially like the
"universal" look you have to the subject.
Thanks again.
E.Borgers HARD-BOILED MYSTERIES http://www.geocities.com/Athens/6384
POLAR NOIR http://www.geocities.com/polarnoir
Jess Nevins :
>The Deadwood Dick stories were written by Edward L.
Wheeler
(1854/5-1885?),
>a veteran writer of dime novels. There were
thirty-three Deadwood Dick
>stories in the dime novel BEADLE'S HALF-DIME LIBRARY,
from 1877 to 1885.
>A 34th story appeared in BEADLE'S BOYS LIBRARY OF
SPORT, STORY, AND
>ADVENTURE in 1882.
>
>..../....
>
>
>>Your book on Victoriana seems very interesting.
Is it an anthology of
>>
>>
>texts from that period, or a wider study on the
subject?
>
>Thanks! It's a combination of literary criticism and
book review of around
>800 characters and two dozen concepts of 19th century
fiction (although I
>go back to 1765 and up to 1905), from science fiction
to fantasy to horror
>to detective/mystery fiction to historical romances
to dime novels to
>penny dreadfuls to Gothics, as well as things like
the work of Ponson du
>Terrail and Paul Feval, Russian bandit ballads,
kabuki, wuxia, and Vietnamese
>epic poetry.
>
>With regard to detective fiction, I discuss, in
various character and concept
>entries, the evolution of the figure of the male
detective, the evolution of
>the fictional female detective, and the 19th century
precursors to modern
>hardboiled fiction. There are over 80 detective
characters covered, American
>British, French, German, and Chinese. I think even
experts will be surprised
>at some of the things I've uncovered, esp. in the
Lady Detectives entry.
>
>The publisher's site for the book is here:
>
>
http://www.monkeybrainbooks.com/Fantastic_Victoriana.html
>
>jess
>
>
>
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