The Detective as Historian

1. Auflage 2007
ISBN: 978-1-84718-126-8
Verlag: Cambridge Scholars Publishing

Buch, Englisch, 240 Seiten

"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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Browne, Ray B.

Kreiser, Lawrence A.

Über Autor(innen)

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 of
The Detective as Historian: History and Art in Historical Crime Fiction, Bowling Green University Popular Press (2000).