Twentieth-century crime fiction : gender, sexuality, and the body / / Gill Plain |
Autore | Plain Gill |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Edinburgh : , : Edinburgh University Press, , 2010 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (viii, 264 pages) |
Disciplina | 823.087209091 |
Soggetto topico |
Detective and mystery stories, English - History and criticism
Detective and mystery stories, American - History and criticism Popular literature - English-speaking countries - History and criticism American fiction - 20th century - History and criticism English fiction - 20th century - History and criticism Human body in literature Sex role in literature Crime in literature Sex in literature |
ISBN | 1-4744-3000-7 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Criminal desires -- Part I Establishing paradigms -- Introduction -- 1 Sacrificial bodies: the corporeal anxieties of Agatha Christie -- 2 When violet yes are smiling: the love stories of Raymond Chandler -- Part II The 'Normal science' of detection -- Introduction -- 3 Dividing the men from the boys: Joseph Hansen's economy of the same -- 4 Wounded masculinity and the Homosocial bond: fathers and lovers in the novels of Dick Francis -- 5 V. I. Warshawski and the little red shoes: Sara Paretsky's feminist fairy tales -- 6 Passing/out: the paradoxical possibilities of detective Delafield -- Part III Shifting paradigms -- Introduction -- 7 Out of order: lesbian detection textual pleasure -- 8 Consuming the boundaries of crime: serial killing and the taste for violence -- 9 Postscript: the death of detective? -- Bibliography -- Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910794180803321 |
Plain Gill | ||
Edinburgh : , : Edinburgh University Press, , 2010 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Twentieth-century crime fiction : gender, sexuality, and the body / / Gill Plain |
Autore | Plain Gill |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Edinburgh : , : Edinburgh University Press, , 2010 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (viii, 264 pages) |
Disciplina | 823.087209091 |
Soggetto topico |
Detective and mystery stories, English - History and criticism
Detective and mystery stories, American - History and criticism Popular literature - English-speaking countries - History and criticism American fiction - 20th century - History and criticism English fiction - 20th century - History and criticism Human body in literature Sex role in literature Crime in literature Sex in literature |
ISBN | 1-4744-3000-7 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Criminal desires -- Part I Establishing paradigms -- Introduction -- 1 Sacrificial bodies: the corporeal anxieties of Agatha Christie -- 2 When violet yes are smiling: the love stories of Raymond Chandler -- Part II The 'Normal science' of detection -- Introduction -- 3 Dividing the men from the boys: Joseph Hansen's economy of the same -- 4 Wounded masculinity and the Homosocial bond: fathers and lovers in the novels of Dick Francis -- 5 V. I. Warshawski and the little red shoes: Sara Paretsky's feminist fairy tales -- 6 Passing/out: the paradoxical possibilities of detective Delafield -- Part III Shifting paradigms -- Introduction -- 7 Out of order: lesbian detection textual pleasure -- 8 Consuming the boundaries of crime: serial killing and the taste for violence -- 9 Postscript: the death of detective? -- Bibliography -- Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910809102303321 |
Plain Gill | ||
Edinburgh : , : Edinburgh University Press, , 2010 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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