05393nam 22008415 450 991079075050332120200919105257.01-349-44993-81-137-28865-510.1057/9781137288653(CKB)2550000001167748(EBL)1571874(SSID)ssj0001108088(PQKBManifestationID)11603638(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001108088(PQKBWorkID)11086083(PQKB)11388948(DE-He213)978-1-137-28865-3(OCoLC)863996911(MiAaPQ)EBC1571874(EXLCZ)99255000000116774820151217d2013 u| 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrDime Novels and the Roots of American Detective Fiction[electronic resource] /by P. Bedore1st ed. 2013.London :Palgrave Macmillan UK :Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan,2013.1 online resource (221 p.)Crime FilesDescription based upon print version of record.1-137-28864-7 1-306-17945-9 Includes bibliographical references and index.Cover; Half-Title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; List of Appendix Tables; Acknowledgments; 1 The Case of the Missing Detectives; or, Reassessing the American Contribution to Detective Fiction; Introduction; Construing the absence of the dime novel detective; Who is the American dime novel detective?; Disrupting existing narratives about detective fiction; Some organizing principles; 2 The Happy-Ending Deception; or, Uncovering the Subversive Potential of Detective Dime Novels; Introduction; The primacy of endings: a theoretical excursionMethods and trends: (de)coding the dime novel detectiveA shadowy detective and a police captain: gender bending and genre blending; Forced marriages, faked weddings, and gendered problems of closure; The detectives that don't work out: death and corruption in the detective position; A Terrible Ending: an unambiguous antidote to happy endings; In conclusion ...; 3 The Case of the Contaminated Icon; or, Allan Pinkerton's Dangerous Detective Doubles; Introduction; Allan Pinkerton's iconography: all-seeing eyes, Civil War spies, and the Underground RailroadPinkerton's generic breadth: classical, hardboiled, police, and diverse detectivesContamination and the problems of deep cover; Outlaw doubling lite: the humorous logic of bodily substitution; Outlaw doubling darkened through the prism of graphic torture; Conclusion; 4 Playing with the Ace of Hearts; or, Mentorship, Sportsmanship, and Nick Carter's Epistemological Dilemmas; Introduction; Nick Carter's school for detectives: mentorship and fair play; The mediating power of games; The ethical and erotic mediations of the femme fatale; Proto-postmodern epistemological investigations; Conclusion5 Faulkner, Twain, and the Legacy of Dime Novel DetectivesIntroduction; White elephants, doubled barrels, and Mark Twain's detective obsessions; Chasing the unknown gambit; or, mentorship and games in Nick Carter and Gavin Stevens; Conclusion; 6 Conclusions and Directions for Future Research; Appendix Tables; Notes; References; IndexThis book reveals subversive representations of gender, race and class in detective dime novels (1860-1915), arguing that inherent tensions between subversive and conservative impulses—theorized as contamination and containment—explain detective fiction's ongoing popular appeal to readers and to writers such as Twain and Faulkner.Crime FilesSociologyAmerica—LiteraturesLiteratureCrime—Sociological aspectsLiterature—PhilosophyCulture—Study and teachingGender Studieshttps://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/X35000North American Literaturehttps://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/834000Literature, generalhttps://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/800000Crime and Societyhttps://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/1B3000Literary Theoryhttps://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/812000Cultural Theoryhttps://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/411130Sociology.America—Literatures.Literature.Crime—Sociological aspects.Literature—Philosophy.Culture—Study and teaching.Gender Studies.North American Literature.Literature, general.Crime and Society.Literary Theory.Cultural Theory.813/.087209HIS038000LIT004020LIT004230bisacshBedore Pauthttp://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut1582026BOOK9910790750503321Dime Novels and the Roots of American Detective Fiction3863997UNINA