Heather Worthington's book challenges the traditional account that finds detection before Poe's Dupin and Doyle's Holmes only in Gothic and Newgate novels and some police memoirs. In fact, the popular press, from broadsides to periodicals, is where both the fictional detective a…
"Heather Worthington's book challenges the traditional account that finds detection before Poe's Dupin and Doyle's Holmes only in Gothic and Newgate novels and some police memoirs. In fact, the popular press, from broadsides to periodicals, is where both the fictional detective …
"A mere intellectual bazaar": the Edinburgh review in (and as) the public sphere, 1802-1808 -- "Edinburgh is a talking town": Christopher North and the review essay as conversational exhibition -- "A deal more safe as well as dignified": Lockhart's modified amateurism and the sh…
"Romantic Empiricism is a collection of essays by established and emerging scholars, which represents a paradigm shift for the study of British Romanticism. The volume challenges the received view that German Idealist philosophy constitutes the main intellectual reference point …
