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After two chapters covering basic terms and tools in the study of culture and representation , the book covers such topics as the history of justice - system methods for visualizing criminality , from fingerprinting to DNA ; the emergence of a ' forensic gaze ' that begins with Edgar Allan Poe and Sherlock Holmes and culminates in the American television show Crime Scene Investigation and the rise of ways of seeing urban space that constantly divide the city into ' good ' and ' bad ' areas . But these two geniuses , Edgar Allan Poe and Walt Whitman , were too far ahead of their times to have much effect upon their contemporaries . We will read together a series of novels and short stories , beginning with the early works of Mary Shelley and Edgar Allan Poe and finishing with Anne Rice .