Overview
- Studies visual aids as metaphors for ways of seeing in detective fiction
- Investigates the value of eye-witness testimony
- Considers famous characters including Sherlock Holmes, Lord Peter Wimsey, Mrs. Ariadne Oliver and more
Part of the book series: Crime Files (CF)
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Table of contents (9 chapters)
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Through a Glass Darkly
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Seeing the Unseen
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Seeing Through Glass
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Binocular Vision
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Book Title: Ocular Proof and the Spectacled Detective in British Crime Fiction
Authors: Lisa Hopkins
Series Title: Crime Files
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-29849-3
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2023
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-29848-6Published: 01 June 2023
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-29851-6Due: 02 July 2023
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-29849-3Published: 31 May 2023
Series ISSN: 2947-8340
Series E-ISSN: 2947-8359
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 193
Topics: Twentieth-Century Literature, Fiction, Popular Culture , Crime and the Media