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Mystery and Detective fiction
Doyle, "Musgrave Ritual"

• Sherlockian.net
• Dictionary of Victorian London
• A recreation of 221b Baker street
• A study in the appeal and reception of these stories
• Events around 1893
  • Invention of thermos 1888
  • 1885: Pasteur invents rabies and anthrax vaccines
  • 1886: 1st use of word "subconscious"
  • In 1893, Freud and Breuer published Über den Psychischen Mechanismus Hysterischer, marking the beginning of psychoanalysis. They claimed that "hysterics suffer mainly from reminescences"
  • 1892: Death of Darwin
  • 1897: Marie Curie begins study of radioactivity
  • 1893: Good n plenty and Cracker Jacks 1st produced
  • 1891: international copyright treaty
  • 1893: 1st 4-function caculator
  • 1895: Marconi transmits Radio signal; invention of X rays
  • 1888: Jack the Ripper
  • 1800's John Venn publishes books on logic, chance, probability

Chandler, "Simple Art" (498-509); movie excerpts

• Raymond Chandler web
• Chandlerisms
• A guide to mystery and detection
• IMDB's page on Double Indemnity
• Film Noir (and some full-text articles)
  • Temporal innovation in Film Noir
• Events around 1944
  • A photographic look at the 40's: War and Peace
  • Death of Anne Frank 1944
  • Born: Gandhi, Rudy Giuliani, Tony Orlando, George Lucas, Danny DeVito
  • Top grossing movie: Meet me in St. Louis (a musical starring Judy Garland) 1944
  • First hit by Louis Jordan, Father of R&B 1944
  • First televised network newscast 1944
  • Frozen french fries 1948
  • Smokey the Bear 1944
  • 1946 Elvis pays $12.95 for his first guitar
  • Slinky invented 1943
  • Supreme court rules women may serve on juries 1947
  • Auschwitz: highest # of Jews executed in a single day (9000) 1944
  • Discovery of 2-stage process that allows detonation of nuclear weapons 1944
  • 1920 first weapons identification catalog; 1921 portable polygraph; 1932 FBI Crime Lab created; 1937 luminol--tests for blood, 1945 test for semen identification
  • 1940's 50% of men and 26% of women reported having extramarital sex; far fewer reported premarital sex

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Sayers, "Absolutely Everywhere" 538-547;Moseley, "Watts Lion" 570-580

"" 125-175

• online class click here (hold down control key if you have popup blocker)
  • Then Click on English 207
  • Then Click on the posting for today (2/2/04)
  • Then answer both questions and follow up to two others.
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• Listen to Radio Broadcast on Maron and others
• Listen to interview

""175-225

"225-end

• A brief history of detective films

"" 50-125

Randy Wayne White Home page

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"" 175-225

Novel: Black Cherry Blues 1-50

• An interview with James Lee Burke (and here's another one)
• Official home page (includes bibliography and merchandise)

LAST DAY TO DROP WITH A W

Paper 1 Due

Novel: Dressed to Die OR Every Crooked Nanny 1-50

ONLINE CLASS (click here)

"" 275-325

LAST DAY FOR ADMIN/ HEALTH WITHDRAWALS