Detective Fiction w/ Simon Stern and Adam Hammond
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English - December 03, 2021 05:30 - 38 minutes - 52.2 MBBooks Arts Society & Culture books education fiction literaryaffairs literature poetry reading Homepage Download Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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Alex speaks with Professors Simon Stern (UofT Law/English) and Adam Hammond (UofT English) about the detective fiction of Arthur Conan Doyle as it relates to their ongoing project, “The Birth of the Modern Detective Story, 1890–1920.” Key topics of discussion include the rise of the modern “inferential attitude,” the role of probability in detectives' reasoning about the crowd, and the “magic” of Sherlock Holmes.
You can find the book list and transcript for this episode at hhlitandlib.ca/endnote.