| Description |
xi, 202 pages ; 25 cm |
| Series |
Contributions to the study of popular culture, 0198-9871 ; no. 62 |
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Contributions to the study of popular culture ; no. 62
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| Contents |
I. Theoretical Approaches to the Genre. 1. Canonization, Modern Literature, and the Detective Story / John G. Cawelti. 2. Shamus-a-um: Having the Quality of a Classical Detective / Timothy W. Boyd and Carolyn Higbie. 3. An Ideal Helpmate: The Detective Character as (Fictional) Object and Ideal Imago / Timothy R. Prchal. 4. The Politics of Secrecy and Publicity: The Functions of Hidden Stories in Some Recent British Mystery Fiction / Peter Huhn. 5. Not So Much "Whodunnit" as "Whoizzit": Margaret Millar's Command of a Metonymic Sub-Genre / Ann Thompson and John O. Thompson. 6. Farody and Detective Fiction / Janice MacDonald. 7. "The Game's Afoot": Predecessors and Pursuits of a Postmodern Detective Novel / Kathleen Belin Owen -- II. Agatha Christie and British Detective Fiction. 8. Christie's Narrative Games / Robert Merrill. 9. "It Was the Mark of Cain": Agatha Christie and the Murder of the Mystery / Robin Woods |
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10. Impossible Murderers: Agatha Christie and the Community of Readers / Ina Rae Hark. 11. "The Daughters of His Manhood": Christie and the Golden Age of Detective Fiction / Mary Anne Ackershoek. 12. "I am Duchess of Malfi still": The Identity-Death Nexus in The Duchess of Malfi and The Skull beneath the Skin / Carolyn F. Scott. 13. "An Unsuitable Job" for Anyone: The "Filthy Trade" in P. D. James / Marnie Jones and Barbara Barker. 14. Between Men: How Ruth Rendell Reads for Gender / Martha Stoddard Holmes. 15. Class, Gender, and the Possibilities of Detection in Anne Perry's Victorian Reconstructions / Iska S. Alter. 16. A Suitable Job for a Woman: Sexuality, Motherhood, and Professionalism in Gaudy Night / Jasmine Y. Hall. 17. The Bureaucrat as Reader: The Detective Novel in the Context of Middle-Class Culture / James E. Bartell |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Also issued online |
| Subject |
Detective and mystery stories -- History and criticism -- Theory, etc
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Detective and mystery stories, English -- History and criticism.
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Mystery and detective stories -- History and criticism -- Theory, etc.
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| Author |
Delamater, Jerome.
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Prigozy, Ruth.
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Hofstra University.
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| LC no. |
97001691 |
| ISBN |
0313304629 (alk. paper) |
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