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Title The Sleuth and the scholar : origins, evolution, and current trends in detective fiction / edited by Barbara A. Rader and Howard G. Zettler.

Publication Info. New York : Greenwood Press, 1988.

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 Manchester, Main Library - Non Fiction  813.0872    Check Shelf
Description xiii, 138 pages ; 25 cm.
Series Contributions to the study of popular culture, 0198-9871 ; no. 19
Contributions to the study of popular culture, 0198-9871 ; no. 19.
Note Papers from a symposium, Wesleyan University, Middletown, Conn., 10/18/86, sponsored by The Southern Connecticut Library Council.
Bibliography Bibliography: pages [111]-125.
Note Includes index.
Contents Keynote address: Gender and detective fiction / Carolyn Heilbrun -- 1. Mysteries as social criticism: Detection and ethics: the case of P.D. James / Dennis Porter -- Chandler comes to Harlem: racial politics in the thrillers of Chester Himes / Peter J. Rabinowitz -- The social-domestic world of June Thomson's Detective Chief Inspector Jack Finch/Rudd / John McAleer -- 2. Women and crime writing: Seeley Regester: America's first detective novelist / B.J. Rahn -- Let's hear it again for Agatha Christie: a feminist appreciation / Michele Slung -- A sweep through the subgenres / Marilyn Stasio -- 3. Down these mean streets: Hard-boiled Virgil: early nineteenth-century beginnings of a popular literary formula / William W. Stowe -- The hard-boiled detective story: from the open range to the mean streets / Richard Slotkin -- Elmore Leonard: splitting images / Susan Steinberg.
Subject Detective and mystery stories, American -- History and criticism -- Congresses.
Detective and mystery stories, English -- History and criticism -- Congresses.
Indexed Term Detective fiction in English American writers - Critical studies
Added Author Rader, Barbara A., 1941-
Zettler, Howard G.
Southern Connecticut Library Council.
ISBN 0313260362 library binding alkaline paper
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