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- Some New Books Of Interest
- Rex Stout's Influences
- An Artistic Mystery In Edinburgh
- A Charles Dickens Exhibit
| Posted: 01 Dec 2011 12:19 PM PST Reading over the holidays? Bailey, Quentin, Wordsworth's Vagrants: Police, Prisons, and Poetry in the 1790s (Ashgate Publishing Company, 2011). Freeman, Nicholas, 1895: Drama, Disaster, and Disgrace in Late Victorian Britain (Edinburgh University Press, 2011). Voss, Ralph F. ,Truman Capote and the Legacy of "In Cold Blood" (University of Alabama Press, 2011).   |
| Posted: 01 Dec 2011 12:03 PM PST Ross E. Davies, George Mason University School of Law & The Green Bag, and Cattleya M. Concepcion, The Green Bag, have published Fore-Shadowed: Where Rex Stout Got the Idea for Fer-De-Lance, at 2012 Green Bag Almanac and Reader 151. Here is the abstract. Researchers describing the discovery of something they are not equipped to fully understand run the risk that their reach will exceed their grasp. |
And so, as mere enthusiastic newcomers to the study of author Rex Stout, we will limit ourselves to: (1) reporting that we have run across an early (1916) detective story written by Stout and (2) sharing a few thoughts that would likely occur on first reading to anyone - and especially a lawyer - familiar with Stout's later (beginning in 1934) detective stories featuring his Nero Wolfe and Archie Goodwin characters.
Download the article from SSRN at the link.
Download the article from SSRN at the link.
An Artistic Mystery In Edinburgh
Posted: 01 Dec 2011 09:28 AM PST
Over the past few months an unidentified someone has left ten paper miniatures in various cultural sites and libraries around Edinburgh to signal her (and it seems to be a her) gratitude for the inspiration that the humanities bring to our lives. The miniatures are made from appropriate materials--in the case of a mini Tyrannosaurus Rex, a copy of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's The Lost World. More here (discussion and photographs) from the site Community This Is Central Station and Krulwich's blogpost The Library Phantom Returns!
Posted: 01 Dec 2011 08:32 AM PST
Care for a little Dickens with your December? The British Library has mounted a new exhibit, A Hankering After Ghosts: Charles Dickens and and the Supernatural, which features, in addition to materials from "A Christmas Carol" (we have to see those), a letter from Dickens to his wife Catherine (marital flap), and documentation of his views on spiritualism (he had his doubts). More on the exhibit, Dickens, ghosts, general spookiness, and whether the writer might just have gotten his idea for one ghost story from another author from the Guardian.
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