Description |
xiii, 138 pages ; 25 cm. |
Series |
Contributions to the study of popular culture, 0198-9871 ; no. 19 |
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Contributions to the study of popular culture,
0198-9871 ; no. 19.
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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.
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Detective and mystery stories, English -- History and criticism -- Congresses.
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Indexed Term |
Detective fiction in English American writers - Critical studies |
Added Author |
Rader, Barbara A., 1941-
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Zettler, Howard G.
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Southern Connecticut Library Council.
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ISBN |
0313260362 library binding alkaline paper |
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