LEADER 04376nam 2200637 450 001 9910809102303321 005 20230912150506.0 010 $a1-4744-3000-7 024 7 $a10.1515/9781474430005 035 $a(CKB)4100000010673735 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC6141699 035 $a(DE-B1597)614431 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781474430005 035 $a(OCoLC)1306540234 035 $a(EXLCZ)994100000010673735 100 $a20200627e20102001 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aTwentieth-century crime fiction $egender, sexuality, and the body /$fGill Plain 210 1$aEdinburgh :$cEdinburgh University Press,$d2010. 210 4$dİ2001 215 $a1 online resource (viii, 264 pages) 311 $a0-7486-1087-1 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages [249]-257) and index. 327 $tFrontmatter --$tContents --$tAcknowledgments --$tIntroduction: Criminal desires --$tPart I Establishing paradigms --$tIntroduction --$t1 Sacrificial bodies: the corporeal anxieties of Agatha Christie --$t2 When violet yes are smiling: the love stories of Raymond Chandler --$tPart II The 'Normal science' of detection --$tIntroduction --$t3 Dividing the men from the boys: Joseph Hansen's economy of the same --$t4 Wounded masculinity and the Homosocial bond: fathers and lovers in the novels of Dick Francis --$t5 V. I. Warshawski and the little red shoes: Sara Paretsky's feminist fairy tales --$t6 Passing/out: the paradoxical possibilities of detective Delafield --$tPart III Shifting paradigms --$tIntroduction --$t7 Out of order: lesbian detection textual pleasure --$t8 Consuming the boundaries of crime: serial killing and the taste for violence --$t9 Postscript: the death of detective? --$tBibliography --$tIndex 330 $aTwentieth-Century Crime Fiction is an illuminating and challenging critical study of this ever popular genre. In the book Gill Plain uses contemporary theories of gender and sexuality to challenge the dominant perception of crime fiction as a conservative genre. The rise of lesbian detection and the impact of serial killing are considered alongside detailed analyses of works by popular writers such as Agatha Christie, Raymond Chandler, Dick Francis and Sara Paretsky. Beginning with a radical reconceptualisation of genre categories, the book goes on to consider recent revisions and reappropriations of the form. The final section focuses on textual pleasure and the destabilising of genre boundaries, raising the timely question of whether the queering of crime fiction represents a revitalising paradigm shift or the conceptual collapse of the genre. The first substantial critical work on twentieth-century crime from a gender perspective. Provides in-depth textual analysis often missing from studies of popular fiction. Reappraises the framework within which crime fiction might be studied and taught. Sets key 'canonical' crime writers alongside both radical innovators and best-selling populists of the genre 606 $aDetective and mystery stories, English$xHistory and criticism 606 $aDetective and mystery stories, American$xHistory and criticism 606 $aPopular literature$zEnglish-speaking countries$xHistory and criticism 606 $aAmerican fiction$y20th century$xHistory and criticism 606 $aEnglish fiction$y20th century$xHistory and criticism 606 $aHuman body in literature 606 $aSex role in literature 606 $aCrime in literature 606 $aSex in literature 615 0$aDetective and mystery stories, English$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aDetective and mystery stories, American$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aPopular literature$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aAmerican fiction$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aEnglish fiction$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aHuman body in literature. 615 0$aSex role in literature. 615 0$aCrime in literature. 615 0$aSex in literature. 676 $a823.087209091 700 $aPlain$b Gill$0164568 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910809102303321 996 $aTwentieth-century crime fiction$94007440 997 $aUNINA