LEADER 05035nam 22009015 450 001 9910955218003321 005 20240312135725.0 010 $a9781349449934 010 $a1349449938 010 $a9781137288653 010 $a1137288655 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(Perlego)3485180 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 /$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 $aCrime Files,$x2947-8359 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 08$a9781137288646 311 08$a1137288647 311 08$a9781306179454 311 08$a1306179459 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,$x2947-8359 606 $aSex 606 $aAmerica$xLiteratures 606 $aLiterature 606 $aCrime$xSociological aspects 606 $aLiterature$xPhilosophy 606 $aCulture$xStudy and teaching 606 $aGender Studies 606 $aNorth American Literature 606 $aLiterature 606 $aCrime and Society 606 $aLiterary Theory 606 $aCultural Theory 615 0$aSex. 615 0$aAmerica$xLiteratures. 615 0$aLiterature. 615 0$aCrime$xSociological aspects. 615 0$aLiterature$xPhilosophy. 615 0$aCulture$xStudy and teaching. 615 14$aGender Studies. 615 24$aNorth American Literature. 615 24$aLiterature. 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$01791332 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910955218003321 996 $aDime Novels and the Roots of American Detective Fiction$94328594 997 $aUNINA