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...James R. Kincaid Bloodhounds of Heaven: The Detective in English Fiction from Godwin to Doyle . Ousby Ian . Cambridge, Mass. and London : Harvard University Press , 1976 . Pp. x , 194 . $10.00 . Copyright © 1977 by Duke University Press 1977 Book Reviews 383 though objective...

...Robert H. Woody The Mystery of “A Public Man”: A Historical Detective Story . By Anderson Frank Maloy . Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press , 1948 . Pp. 256 . $3.75 . Copyright © 1949 by Duke University Press 1949 Book Reviews 49i that here are the real dimensions...

...George Barr Carson, Jr. Copyright © 1956 by Duke University Press 1956 THE ARMCHAIR DETECTIVE VS. THE IRON CURTAIN George Barr Carson, Jr. NDER NORMAL circumstances an American scholar who UJ wants information about any area in the Western World can utilize the serious work of other scholars...

...Gerald E. Gerber Poe, the Detective: The Curious Circumstances Behind “The Mystery of Marie Roget.” By Walsh John . New Brunswick, N. J. : Rutgers University Press , 1968 . Pp. 154 . $7.50 . Copyright © 1969 by Duke University Press 1969 132 The South Atlantic Quarterly...

...Jerome Christensen Copyright © 1996 by Duke University Press 1996 Jerome Christensen The Detection of the Romantic Conspiracy in Britain What has been traditionally labeled firstgeneration Romantic poetry the poetry written by Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge, and Southey during much of the last...

...Frederick Bernheim The Incurable Wound and farther narratives of medical detection . By Roueche Berton . Boston : Little, Brown and Company , 1958 . Pp. 177 . $3.50 . Copyright © 1958 by Duke University Press 1958 536 The South Atlantic Quarterly The Incurable Wound...

... of the roman noir in the works of Raymond Chandler and James Ellroy, I will argue that we can witness a generic shift in the status of the “state of exception.” This shift concerns the relation between commodity culture, the law, woman, and the border figure of the detective, who is at once within and beyond...

...Gavin Walker We can detect two great or overarching thematics in Foucault’s work: through the publication of the first volume of the History of Sexuality a general interest in the modes of discipline according to which individuals are formed in accordance with the social order; and from 1980...

... of determining the authorship, date, etc. These are the problems of the critical scholar. The solving of these problems brings into play the same mental pro­ cesses that the detective uses is reaching his deductions and that the boy employs in unravelling an anagram. The pleasure that the solution...

... in this respect, at least for modern American society, has been the private detective: the figure who has not merely the right, but also the professional obligation, to penetrate such sealed and dis­ parate social spaces, to visit the rich as well as the unemployed, to Celine and Innocence 313 listen...

... sell; and in my opinion the public is just as enlightened by them and certainly more titillated as by the degreed academics. TULANE UNIVERSITY GERALD M. CAPERS Bloodhounds of Heaven: The Detective in English Fiction from Godwin to Doyle. Ian Ousby. Cambridge, Mass, and London: Harvard University Press...

... to be arbi­ trarily closed off by the formulaic clarity of the conclusion to the murder/detective plot, where there seems to be no room for racial loose ends. Even the history of the composition of the manuscript bears out this reading, given that the text which began as a farci­ cal literary sideshow about...

... of continuous linear change, such as increasing size or complexity, is usually detectable). The diversity one gets by ortho­ genesis is relatively minor; it is of the type we recognize as themes and variations, in which the theme is the basic ground plan or arche­ type of the biological structure...

... and clothing or in their bags and luggage, but as U.S. officials get better at detect- ing the nervousness of a border crosser or odd body shapes or their bags, transporting drugs on foot is just too risky. Also, the amount of drugs that The Drug War and the Border 871...

..., but Ousby is perhaps even stronger dealing with the uneasy transition, writing on detection and the detective in Dickens. The analysis of Bleak House is one of the most lucid and capacious on record, and that is saying much. Ousby is both well-informed and highly flexible, able to suggest a variety...

..., of course, brings up anew the question of the body-mind or matter-mind relationship. Is it a unity or duality ? Undoubtedly the great majority of scientists will hold that it is a unity, for they see the body as a machine in which detectible energy conversions are constantly going on. It is a marvelous kind...

... detects changing urban imagery as industrial and city growth challenged the agrarian ideal by the 1830 s. The rural republic gave way to a middle land­ scape which established a balance between city and country and in which factories were placed in rural locations. By mid-century, as the permanence...

... philosophical essays, which he sees as combining elements of traditional British empiricism and of con­ temporary Continental existentialism. Believing, indeed, that she possesses the entire tradition of Western thought in her armory, he tends to be overzealous in detecting the latent presence of thinkers...

... of the nineteenth century, the ideal of the virtu­ ous, agrarian republic was generally accepted. In a case study of the factory town of Lowell, Massachusetts, Bender detects changing urban imagery as industrial and city growth challenged the agrarian ideal by the 1830 s. The rural republic gave way to a middle...

... order. The essay on the masks, not only because it deals with events after Keats s death but also because of its minute and nonliterary topic, might well be placed last instead of first. On the other hand, a full and fascinating piece of biographical detective work, which seeks to identify the rural...