{"product_id":"staging-detection-from-hawkshaw-to-holmes-paperback","title":"Staging Detection: From Hawkshaw to Holmes - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eIsabel Stowell-Kaplan\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eStaging Detection\u003c\/em\u003e reveals how the new figure of the stage detective emerged in nineteenth-century Britain. The first book to explore the productive intersections between detection and performance across a range of Victorian plays, \u003ci\u003eStaging Detection \u003c\/i\u003eforegrounds the role of the stage detective in shaping important theatrical modes of the period, from popular melodrama to society comedy.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBeginning in 1863 with Tom Taylor's blockbuster play, \u003ci\u003eThe Ticket-of-Leave Man\u003c\/i\u003e, the book criss-crosses London following the earliest performances of stage detectives. Centring the work of playwrights, novelists, critics and actors, from Sarah Lane and Horace Wigan to Wilkie Collins and Oscar Wilde, \u003ci\u003eStaging Detection\u003c\/i\u003e sheds new light on Victorian acting styles, furthers our understanding of melodrama, and resituates the famous Wildean dandy as a successor to the stage detective. Drawing on histories of masculinity and gender performance as well as developing scientific theory and nineteenth-century visual culture, \u003ci\u003eStaging Detection\u003c\/i\u003e shows how the earliest stage portrayals of the detective shaped broader Victorian debates concerning fraud, omniscience and earned authority.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThis book will be of great interest to students and scholars of theatre history, Victorian literature and popular culture - as well as anyone with an interest in the figure of the detective.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eIsabel Stowell-Kaplan\u003c\/strong\u003e is a Marie Curie Research Fellow in the Department of Theatre at the University of Bristol, UK.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 162\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.37 x 9.21 x 6.14 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e January 09, 2023\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47444360593586,"sku":"9780367632656","price":90.7,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0770\/3891\/1666\/files\/e8fa19b1c388d9b992763f9d802e0c7b_71fdfd6a-ca2f-41c0-a87b-9679169e6bf5.webp?v=1778703857","url":"https:\/\/box.dadyminds.org\/products\/staging-detection-from-hawkshaw-to-holmes-paperback","provider":"DADYMINDS BOX","version":"1.0","type":"link"}