Using the methods of Edgar Allan Poe's sleuth C. Auguste Dupin, Kopley here offers surprising discoveries about Poe's detective tales and traces the origins of the modern detective tale genre. Using the methods of Edgar Allan Poe's sleuth C. Auguste...
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Using the methods of Edgar Allan Poe's sleuth C. Auguste Dupin, Kopley here offers surprising discoveries about Poe's detective tales and traces the origins of the modern detective tale genre. Using the methods of Edgar Allan Poe's sleuth C. Auguste Dupin, Kopley here offers surprising discoveries about Poe's detective tales and traces the origins of the modern detective tale genre
Includes bibliographical references (p. [119]-139) and index
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Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; I: Formal Considerations of the Dupin Tales; II: "The Murders in the Rue Morgue" and The Philadelphia Saturday News; III: "The Mystery of Marie Rogêt" and "Various Newspaper Files"; IV: "The Purloined Letter" and Death-Bed Confessions; V: Autobiographical Considerations of the Dupin Tales; Conclusion; Notes; Works Cited; The Murders in the Rue Morgue; The Mystery of Marie Roget; The Purloined Letter; Index