Chemical crimes : science and poison in Victorian crime fiction / Cheryl Blake Price.
Price, Cheryl Blake, author.
2019
PR878.C74 P75 2019 (Mapit)
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Title
Chemical crimes : science and poison in Victorian crime fiction / Cheryl Blake Price.
Author
Price, Cheryl Blake, author.
ISBN
9780814213919 (hardcover)
081421391X (hardcover)
9780814276839 (electronic book)
0814276830 (electronic book)
Published
Columbus : The Ohio State University Press, [2019]
Language
English
Description
viii, 195 pages ; 24 cm
Call Number
PR878.C74 P75 2019
Dewey Decimal Classification
823/.087209008
Summary
"An exploration of poison's transformation into chemical crime in the nineteenth century and impact on crime fiction and Victorian perceptions of science. Examines the role of scientific criminals in the works of Letitia Elizabeth Landon, Ellen Wood, Edward Bulwer Lytton, L.T. Meade, Charles Warren Adams, and Wilkie Collins"-- Provided by publisher.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 179-189) and index.
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