The sleuth and the scholar : origins, evolution, and current trends in detective fiction

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The sleuth and the scholar : origins, evolution, and current trends in detective fiction

edited by Barbara A. Rader and Howard G. Zettler

（Contributions to the study of popular culture, no. 19）

Greenwood Press, 1988

  • : lib. bdg. : alk. paper

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Papers from a symposium, Wesleyan University, Middletown, Conn., 10/18/86, sponsored by the Southern Connecticut Library Council

Bibliography: p. [111]-125

Includes index

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Is the detective novel popular fiction or serious literature? This collection of essays examines the historical, literary, and critical aspects of the genre. Three interrelated aspects of detective fiction are addressed: the mystery story as a vehicle for social criticism, women crime writers, and the American hard-boiled detective story--its origins in cowboy fiction, recent trends, and whether the mean streets still belong exclusively to men. Contributors span the ranks of well-known crime writers, popular critics of detective fiction, and academic scholars. This unusual volume aptly illustrates the nature and attractions of a style of fiction that was once dismissed as merely sensational and is now seen as mainstream.

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Foreword by Robin W. Winks Keynote Address: Gender and Detective Fiction: by Carolyn Heilbrun Mysteries as Social Criticism Detection and Ethics: The Case of P. D. James by Dennis Porter Chandler Comes to Harlem: Racial Politics in the Thrillers of Chester Himes by Peter J. Rabinowitz The Social-Domestic World of June Thomson's Detective Chief Inspector Jack Finch-Rudd by John McAleer Women in Crime Writing Seeley Regester: America's First Detective Novelist by B. J. Rahn Let's Hear It for Agatha Christie: A Feminist Appreciation by Michele Slung A Sweep Throught the Subgenres by Marilyn Stasio Down These Mean Streets Hard-Boiled Virgil: Nineteenth-Century Beginnings of a Popular Literary Formula by William W. Stowe The Hard-Boiled Detective Story: From the Open Range to the Mean Streets by Richard Slotkin Elmore Leonard: Splitting Images by Glenn W. Most Annotated Bibliography by Susan Steinberg Poisoned Pens: Book Discussion List

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