Dime Novels and the Roots of American Detective Fiction [[electronic resource] /] / by P. Bedore
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Bedore P
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Dime Novels and the Roots of American Detective Fiction [[electronic resource] /] / by P. Bedore
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| Pubblicazione: | London : , : Palgrave Macmillan UK : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2013 |
| Edizione: | 1st ed. 2013. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (221 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 813/.087209 |
| Soggetto topico: | Sociology |
| 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 | |
| Classificazione: | HIS038000LIT004020LIT004230 |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | 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 excursion |
| Methods 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 | |
| Pinkerton'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 | |
| 5 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 | |
| Sommario/riassunto: | This 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. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Dime Novels and the Roots of American Detective Fiction |
| ISBN: | 1-349-44993-8 |
| 1-137-28865-5 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910790750503321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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Crime Files