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Mar. 1 | 2012 Franklin Prize
Nominations for 2012 John Hope Franklin Publication Prize for the best-published book in American Studies due
Mar. 1 | 2012 Romero Prize
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Thomsen, Dawn Fisk. "The Creation and Production of Detective Fiction in Mid-Nineteenth-Century America: A Developmental History of 'The Idea of Detective,' 1837-1880," Department of American Studies, University of Maryland, January 1999.
This dissertation identifies, retrieves, and explores seven hundred works of American detective fiction—approximately eighty percent identified for the first time—which were recovered from the pages of mid-nineteenth-century American magazines, story papers, dime novels and books. Combined with an analysis of the social and cultural contexts of their times, these detective stories and their publishing histories revise the history of American detective fiction and invite a reconsideration of the genre’s origin and development. A master bibliography by author of American detective fiction published 1837-1880 is provided in the appendix.
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