LEADER 05393nam 22008415 450 001 9910790750503321 005 20200919105257.0 010 $a1-349-44993-8 010 $a1-137-28865-5 024 7 $a10.1057/9781137288653 035 $a(CKB)2550000001167748 035 $a(EBL)1571874 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001108088 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11603638 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001108088 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11086083 035 $a(PQKB)11388948 035 $a(DE-He213)978-1-137-28865-3 035 $a(OCoLC)863996911 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1571874 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000001167748 100 $a20151217d2013 u| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aDime Novels and the Roots of American Detective Fiction$b[electronic resource] /$fby P. Bedore 205 $a1st ed. 2013. 210 1$aLondon :$cPalgrave Macmillan UK :$cImprint: Palgrave Macmillan,$d2013. 215 $a1 online resource (221 p.) 225 1 $aCrime Files 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a1-137-28864-7 311 $a1-306-17945-9 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aCover; 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 excursion 327 $aMethods 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 Railroad 327 $aPinkerton'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; Conclusion 327 $a5 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; Index 330 $aThis book reveals subversive representations of gender, race and class in detective dime novels (1860-1915), arguing that inherent tensions between subversive and conservative impulses?theorized as contamination and containment?explain detective fiction's ongoing popular appeal to readers and to writers such as Twain and Faulkner. 410 0$aCrime Files 606 $aSociology 606 $aAmerica?Literatures 606 $aLiterature 606 $aCrime?Sociological aspects 606 $aLiterature?Philosophy 606 $aCulture?Study and teaching 606 $aGender Studies$3https://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/X35000 606 $aNorth American Literature$3https://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/834000 606 $aLiterature, general$3https://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/800000 606 $aCrime and Society$3https://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/1B3000 606 $aLiterary Theory$3https://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/812000 606 $aCultural Theory$3https://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/411130 615 0$aSociology. 615 0$aAmerica?Literatures. 615 0$aLiterature. 615 0$aCrime?Sociological aspects. 615 0$aLiterature?Philosophy. 615 0$aCulture?Study and teaching. 615 14$aGender Studies. 615 24$aNorth American Literature. 615 24$aLiterature, general. 615 24$aCrime and Society. 615 24$aLiterary Theory. 615 24$aCultural Theory. 676 $a813/.087209 686 $aHIS038000$aLIT004020$aLIT004230$2bisacsh 700 $aBedore$b P$4aut$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut$01582026 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910790750503321 996 $aDime Novels and the Roots of American Detective Fiction$93863997 997 $aUNINA