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The Sleuth and the scholar : origins, evolution, and current trends in detective fiction / edited by Barbara A. Rader and Howard G. Zettler.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Contributions to the study of popular culture ; no. 19.Publication details: New York : Greenwood Press, 1988.Description: xiii, 138 p. ; 25 cmISBN:
  • 0313260362 (lib. bdg. : alk. paper)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 813/.0872/09 19
LOC classification:
  • PS374.D4 S57 1988
Contents:
Keynote address: Gender and detective fiction / Carolyn Heilbrun -- 1. Mysteries as social criticism: Detection and ethics: the case of P.D. James / Dennis Porter -- Chandler comes to Harlem: racial politics in the thrillers of Chester Himes / Peter J. Rabinowitz -- The social-domestic world of June Thomson's Detective Chief Inspector Jack Finch/Rudd / John McAleer -- 2. Women and crime writing: Seeley Regester: America's first detective novelist / B.J. Rahn -- Let's hear it again for Agatha Christie: a feminist appreciation / Michele Slung -- A sweep through the subgenres / Marilyn Stasio -- 3. Down these mean streets: Hard-boiled Virgil: early nineteenth-century beginnings of a popular literary formula / William W. Stowe -- The hard-boiled detective story: from the open range to the mean streets / Richard Slotkin -- Elmore Leonard: splitting images / Susan Steinberg.
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Item type Current library Call number Copy number Status Date due Barcode
Books (30-Day Checkout) Books (30-Day Checkout) Nash Library General Stacks PS374.D4S57 1988 1 Available 33710000055405

Papers from a symposium, Wesleyan University, Middletown, Conn., 10/18/86, sponsored by The Southern Connecticut Library Council.

Includes index.

Bibliography: p. [111]-125.

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Keynote address: Gender and detective fiction / Carolyn Heilbrun -- 1. Mysteries as social criticism: Detection and ethics: the case of P.D. James / Dennis Porter -- Chandler comes to Harlem: racial politics in the thrillers of Chester Himes / Peter J. Rabinowitz -- The social-domestic world of June Thomson's Detective Chief Inspector Jack Finch/Rudd / John McAleer -- 2. Women and crime writing: Seeley Regester: America's first detective novelist / B.J. Rahn -- Let's hear it again for Agatha Christie: a feminist appreciation / Michele Slung -- A sweep through the subgenres / Marilyn Stasio -- 3. Down these mean streets: Hard-boiled Virgil: early nineteenth-century beginnings of a popular literary formula / William W. Stowe -- The hard-boiled detective story: from the open range to the mean streets / Richard Slotkin -- Elmore Leonard: splitting images / Susan Steinberg.