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Author Walton, Priscilla L.

Title Detective agency : women rewriting the hard-boiled tradition / Priscilla L. Walton and Manina Jones.

Publication Info. Berkeley : University of California Press, [1999]
©1999

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 University of Saint Joseph: Pope Pius XII Library - Standard Shelving Location  813.0872 W241D    Check Shelf
Description xii, 315 pages ; 24 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 291-309) and index.
Contents 1. Private eye and the public: professional women detectives and the business of publishing -- 2. Gumshoe metaphysics: reading popular culture and formula fiction -- 3. Does she or doesn't she?: the problematics of feminist detection -- 4. Text as evidence: linguistic subversions -- 5. Private I: viewing (through) the (female) body -- 6. Plotting against the law: outlaw agency -- 7. "She's watching the detectives": the woman PI in film and television.
Subject Detective and mystery stories, American -- History and criticism.
Women and literature -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
American fiction -- Women authors -- History and criticism.
Added Author Jones, Manina.
ISBN 0520215079 alkaline paper
0520215087 alkaline paper
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