Vranken, Thomas and Knight, Stephen (2024) The Automaton Detective: Victorian Reverberations. In: Victorian Automata: Mechanism and Agency in the Nineteenth Century. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK, pp. 195-207. ISBN 9781009110129
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Early detective fiction’s anxious obsession with constructing a respectable canonical lineage ensured that texts in the genre are typically both explicit and repetitive in their intertextual referencing, and early detective fiction stories tend to link themselves back to a fairly limited set of precursor texts and tropes. This chapter argues that the automaton became one of detective fiction’s central recurring symbols in the Victorian period, a contested figure lying at the heart of a struggle over the genre and the worldview that it contained.
| Item Type: | Book Chapter |
|---|---|
| Subjects: | P Language and Literature > PR English literature P Language and Literature > PS American literature |
| Divisions: | School of Pacific Arts, Communication and Education (SPACE) |
| Depositing User: | Thomas Vranken |
| Date Deposited: | 20 Jan 2025 01:17 |
| Last Modified: | 20 Jan 2025 01:17 |
| URI: | https://repository.usp.ac.fj/id/eprint/14612 |
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