"The Murders in the Rue Morgue": Edgar Allan Poe's Evolutionary Reverie
1995; University of California Press; Volume: 50; Issue: 2 Linguagem: Inglês
10.2307/2933690
ISSN1067-8352
Autores Tópico(s)Philosophy and History of Science
ResumoResearch Article| September 01 1995 "The Murders in the Rue Morgue": Edgar Allan Poe's Evolutionary Reverie Lawrence Frank Lawrence Frank Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Nineteenth-Century Literature (1995) 50 (2): 168–188. https://doi.org/10.2307/2933690 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Twitter LinkedIn Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Lawrence Frank; "The Murders in the Rue Morgue": Edgar Allan Poe's Evolutionary Reverie. Nineteenth-Century Literature 1 September 1995; 50 (2): 168–188. doi: https://doi.org/10.2307/2933690 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All ContentNineteenth-Century Literature Search "The Murders in the Rue Morgue" introduces the detective in a moment of historical crisis, involving current controversies about Pierre-Simon Laplace's nebular hypothesis and the claim that the universe had come into existence by chance. C. Auguste Dupin offers narratives modeled on those of the historical disciplines to create order in a universe bereft of religious significance. In the story, the presence of the Ourang-Outang not only suggests, from one perspective, the purely arbitrary nature of the murders, it also uncannily anticipates theories of evolution positing the progressive development of organic life that were to appear in Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation (1844) and in Origin of Species (1859). In this way detective fiction acts not merely to perpetuate reigning orthodoxies but to consolidate over time a paradigm shift within the consciousness of its readers. This content is only available via PDF. Copyright 1995 The Regents of the University of California You do not currently have access to this content.
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