LEADER 05539nam 22007695 450 001 9910634041403321 005 20230810175626.0 010 $a3-031-09241-4 024 7 $a10.1007/978-3-031-09241-1 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC7152949 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL7152949 035 $a(CKB)25610234900041 035 $a(DE-He213)978-3-031-09241-1 035 $a(EXLCZ)9925610234900041 100 $a20221206d2022 u| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aAnimals in Detective Fiction /$fedited by Ruth Hawthorn, John Miller 205 $a1st ed. 2022. 210 1$aCham :$cSpringer International Publishing :$cImprint: Palgrave Macmillan,$d2022. 215 $a1 online resource (311 pages) 225 1 $aPalgrave Studies in Animals and Literature,$x2634-6346 300 $aIncludes index. 311 08$aPrint version: Hawthorn, Ruth Animals in Detective Fiction Cham : Springer International Publishing AG,c2022 9783031092404 327 $aOrigins and Evolutions: The Brutal History of Detective Fiction -- Ontologies -- Tigers, Criminals, Rogues: Animality in Dickens? Detective Fiction -- Quantum Entanglements in Arthur Conan Doyle?s The Hound of the Baskervilles -- Wolverines, Werewolves and Demon Dogs: Animality, Criminality and Classification in James Ellroy?s L.A. Quartet -- Ethics -- The Psittacine Witness: Parrot Talk and Animal Ethics in Earl Derr Biggers? The Chinese Parrot and Earl Stanley Gardner?s The Case of the Perjured Parrot -- Ecology, Capability and Companion Species: Conflicting Ethics in Nevada Barr?s Blood Lure -- Laboratory Tech-Noir: Genre, Narrative Form, and the Literary Model Organism in Jay Hosking?s Three Years with the Rat -- Reptiles, Buddhism, and Detection in John Burdett?s Bangkok 8 -- Politics -- Animals, Biopolitics, and Sensation Fiction: M. E. Braddon?s Lady Audley?s Secret -- ?The Motto of the Mollusc?: Patricia Highsmith and the Semiotics of Snails -- ?Before the white man came, when animals still talked?: Colonial Creatures in Sherman Alexie?s Indian Killer and Adrian C. Louis?s Skins -- Forms -- Aping the Classics: Terry Pratchett?s Satirical Animals and Detective Fiction -- Animal Image and Human Logos in Graphic Detective Fiction -- ?As easy to spot as a kangaroo in a dinner jacket?: Animetaphor in Raymond Chandler and Jonathan Lethem. 330 $aThis book explores the vast array of animals that populate detective fiction. If the genre begins, as is widely supposed, with Edgar Allan Poe?s ?Murders in the Rue Morgue? (1841), then detective fiction?s very first culprit is an animal. Animals, moreover, consistently appear as victims, clues, and companions, while the abstract conception of animality is closely tied to the idea of criminality. Although it is often described as an essentially conservative form, detective fiction can unsettle the binary of human and animal to intersect with developing concerns in animal studies: animal agency, the ethical complexities of human/animal interaction, the politics and literary aesthetics of violence, and animal metaphor. Gathering its 14 essays into sections on ontologies, ethics, politics, and forms, Animals in Detective Fiction provides a compelling and nuanced analysis of the central role creatures play in this enduringly popular and continually morphing literary form. Ruth Hawthorn is Senior Lecturer in American Literature at the University of Lincoln. She is currently completing a monograph on American detective fiction for the BAAS Paperbacks series with Edinburgh University Press. Her research interests include crime fiction, the literature of LA, and ecocriticism. John Miller is Senior Lecturer in Nineteenth-Century Literature at the University of Sheffield, President of ASLE-UKI (Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment, UK and Ireland), and co-editor of Palgrave Studies in Animals in Literature. His books include Empire and the Animal Body (Anthem, 2014) and The Heart of the Forest (British Library Publishing, 2022). . 410 0$aPalgrave Studies in Animals and Literature,$x2634-6346 606 $aLiterature and technology 606 $aMass media and literature 606 $aFiction 606 $aEcocriticism 606 $aCommunication in the environmental sciences 606 $aAnimal welfare$xMoral and ethical aspects 606 $aAnimal culture 606 $aLiterature and Technology 606 $aFiction Literature 606 $aEcocriticism 606 $aEnvironmental Communication 606 $aAnimal Ethics 606 $aAnimal Science 615 0$aLiterature and technology. 615 0$aMass media and literature. 615 0$aFiction. 615 0$aEcocriticism. 615 0$aCommunication in the environmental sciences. 615 0$aAnimal welfare$xMoral and ethical aspects. 615 0$aAnimal culture. 615 14$aLiterature and Technology. 615 24$aFiction Literature. 615 24$aEcocriticism. 615 24$aEnvironmental Communication. 615 24$aAnimal Ethics. 615 24$aAnimal Science. 676 $a050 676 $a809.387209362 702 $aHawthorn$b Ruth 702 $aMiller$b John 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910634041403321 996 $aAnimals in detective fiction$93089316 997 $aUNINA