This collection of essays by leading scholars insists on a larger recognition of the importance and diversity of crime fiction in U.S. literary traditions. The volume emphasizes American crime fiction's inquiry into the nature of democratic society and its exploration of injustices based on race, class, and/or gender that are specifically located in the details of American experience.
This collection of essays by leading scholars insists on a larger recognition of the importance and diversity of crime fiction in U.S. literary traditions. The volume emphasizes American crime fiction's inquiry into the nature of democratic society and its exploration of injustices based on race, class, and/or gender that are specifically located in the details of American experience.
Alfred Bendixen is Lecturer in the Departments of English, Gender and Sexuality Studies, American Studies, and First Year Program at Princeton University, USA. Olivia Carr Edenfield is Professor in the Department of Literature and Philosophy at Georgia Southern University, USA.
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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 Index
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 Index
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