A Narratological Approach to Lists in Detective Fiction.
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Intro -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Abbreviations -- List of Figures -- Chapter 1: Introduction: Reading Lists, Listing Clues -- Chapter 2: Defining Detective Fiction -- Precursors, Influences, Developments: From the Newgate Calendar to the Golden Age -- Beginnings: The Newgate Calendar -- Influences: Edgar Allan Poe, Eug�ene Vidoq, and �Emile Gaboriau -- Precursors: Sensation Fiction -- Detectives and the Police -- Doyle and Positivism -- The Golden Age: Fair Play and the Clue Puzzle -- Excursus: Lists in the History of Detective Fiction-The Rule Catalogs of the Golden Age -- Chapter 3: Dossier Novels: The Reader as Detective -- Detection as a Scientific Process: Charles Warren Adams's The Notting Hill Mystery -- The Role of the Reader -- Detection as a Process -- Processes of Exactitude: Footnotes and Cross-referencing -- Processes of Exactitude: Structuring -- The Evidentiary Force of Authenticity -- Mesmerism, Lists, and Science -- Detection as a Game: The Murder Dossiers -- Murder Off Miami: The Case File -- Reading Strategies -- Herewith the Clues: The (Detection) Game -- Chapter 4: Manipulating Readers: The Novels of Agatha Christie -- Manipulating the Reader: Creating Patterns of Thinking -- Form and Attention -- Relevance and Visibility -- Categorization -- The Fair Play Rule -- Lists as the Detective's Tool: Creating Order -- Representing Thoughts -- Concealing Thoughts -- Breaking Down the Problem: Managing Boundaries -- Lists and Humor: A Meta-commentary on Detective Fiction -- Chapter 5: Excursus: The Thorndyke Novels and the Language of Science -- Creating Scientificity -- Framing: Language and Form -- Expert Knowledge -- Science Meets Creativity: Hypothesizing About Thorndyke's Method -- Chapter 6: Lists and Knowledge -- Sherlock Holmes and the (Victorian) Dream of Total Knowledge. Too Much to Know: Knowledge and Paper Technologies -- Listing Knowledge and the Encyclopedic Impulse -- The Adventure of the Reference Works -- The Case of the Case Index: On Absent Referents -- Knowledge and Visibility: The BBC's Sherlock -- Making Meaning Visible: Shared Affordances of Lists and Maps -- Knowledge, Lists, and Maps in the BBC's Sherlock -- Spatialization and Accessibility -- Navigating and Interpreting Knowledge -- Memory as Objective Data -- Compartmentalization -- Chapter 7: Conclusion: Models of Knowledge in Detective Fiction -- Works Cited -- Index.