French crime fiction

dc.citation.epage76en_US
dc.citation.spage59en_US
dc.contributor.authorSchütt, Sita A.en_US
dc.date.accessioned2018-04-12T13:38:08Z
dc.date.available2018-04-12T13:38:08Z
dc.date.issued2003en_US
dc.departmentDepartment of English Language and Literatureen_US
dc.descriptionChapter 4
dc.description.abstract‘The detection of crime is evidently not an art that has been cultivated in England.’ ‘Our Detective Police’, Chambers Journal, 1884. It is not for nothing that Moriarty was otherwise known as the Napoleon of crime, that Poe's Chevalier Dupin invented ratiocination from a comfortable armchair in a darkened room in Paris, or, for that matter, that Sherlock Holmes takes such pains to scoff at the French police, notably a certain detective named Lecoq, who, he claims, 'was a miserable bungler'. French contributions to the development of crime fiction, in particular the detective story, are significant in the sense that one cannot conceive of the developments in nineteenth-century English detective fiction without them. Holmes's arrogance towards the continental police, notably the French, nevertheless bespeaks a certain amount of insecurity with regard to the fearsome reputation of the French police established during Fouchè's reign of terror under Napoleon, a reputation further consolidated throughout the nineteenth century. © Cambridge University Press 2003 and Cambridge University Press, 2006.en_US
dc.identifier.doi10.1017/CCOL0521803993.005en_US
dc.identifier.isbn9780511999383
dc.identifier.isbn9780521803991
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11693/37799
dc.language.isoEnglishen_US
dc.publisherCambridge University Pressen_US
dc.relation.ispartofThe Cambridge companion to crime fiction
dc.relation.isversionofhttps://doi.org/10.1017/CCOL0521803993.005en_US
dc.relation.isversionofhttps://doi.org/10.1017/CCOL0521803993
dc.titleFrench crime fictionen_US
dc.typeBook Chapteren_US

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