Buch, Englisch, 314 Seiten, Format (B × H): 150 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 522 g
Reihe: Routledge Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Literature
Buch, Englisch, 314 Seiten, Format (B × H): 150 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 522 g
Reihe: Routledge Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Literature
ISBN: 978-0-367-87874-0
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
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Postgraduate and Undergraduate
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CONTENTS
Acknowledgements
List of Figures
Introduction: Re-searching the Premises: The Centrality of Crime Fiction in American Literary Culture, Alfred Bendixen
Foundations:
1 Crime and Detection in Mark Twain
Peter Messent
2 Lizzie Borden, Spinster on Trial: Journalism, Literature, and the Borden Trial
Karen Roggenkamp
3 Dreiser, Dey, and Dime-Novel Crime: The Case of Nick Carter
Nathaniel Williams
Modernist Crime:
4 The Gatsby Murder Case: F. Scott Fitzgerald, S. S. Van Dine, and Analytic Detective Fiction in the 1920s
Kirk Curnutt
5 Preservation and Promotion: Ellery Queen, Magazine Publishing, and the Marketing of Detective Fiction
Matthew Levay
6 Diversions of Furniture and Signature Styles: Hammett, Chandler, Macdonald
Lee Clark Mitchell
7 Faulkner and the Criminality of Modernity
Deborah Clarke
8 Fatal Eyeballing: Sex, Violence and Intimate Voyeurism in Richard Wright’s Native Son Andrew Warnes
Crime After Modernism:
9 Murderous Neglect in Flannery O’Connor’s Fiction
Marshall Bruce Gentry
10 Remorse and Redemption: The Crime Fiction of Andre Dubus
Olivia Carr Edenfield
11 On Manliness and a Personal Sense of Fitness for Citizenship: Chester Himes and Telling Details in Clothing
Norlisha F. Crawford
12 Copy That: Joseph Nazel and African American Crime Narrative in the 1970s
Kinohi Nishikawa
13 "Swarming Like an Army": Odyssean Warcraft in Elmore Leonard’s Early Crime Novels" Charles J. Rzepka
14 Cormac McCarthy’s Mosaic of Crime and Evil
Allen Josephs
Notes on Contributors