Formal Investigations

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Formal Investigations is written by Paul Fox and published by ibidem-Verlag / ibidem Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 3838255933 (ISBN 10) and 9783838255934 (ISBN 13).

The essays in this volume explore a variety of structuring taxonomies, the relationships between the aesthetic forms, styles and methodologies of detective and crime fiction in the late-Victorian and Edwardian period. The influences on the artists in the genre are as varied as the interests of the period in scientific method, forensics, archaeology, aesthetics, medicine, and the paranormal. But the formalizing tendencies of investigative process remain, and it is this adherence, in artist and detective alike, to seeing crime and its resolution as a stylistic imposition of structure on disorder that is under examination.