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... © 2008 by Duke University Press 2008 The Origins of the American Detective Story . By LeRoy Lad Panek. Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland. 2006. viii, 227 pp. Paper, $35.00. Brown Gumshoes: Detective Fiction and the Search for Chicana(o) Identity . By Ralph E. Rodriguez. Austin...

...Paul Grimstad Robinson’s Dreams for Dead Bodies on the whole exhibits a more nuanced sensitivity to literary art than the two just discussed and is full of acute, accurate, original readings of both canonical and lesser-known works of detective fiction. Robinson is centrally concerned...

..., the pervasive role of ‘‘tough’’ language as a social index, and the virtual omnipresence of secretaries in hardboiled detective fiction. One finishes this book convinced that pulp readers did indeed find ‘‘equipment for living’’ in these texts, which survived and even flourished to the extent that they educated...

..., University of California, Los Angeles The Web of Iniquity: Early Detective Fiction by American Women. By Catherine Ross Nickerson. Durham, N.C.: Duke Univ. Press. 1998. xix, 275 pp. Cloth, $49.95; paper, $17.95. In this complex study of detective fiction by American women writers from the Victorian...

...Todd Barosky Abstract This article examines the US Secret Service, a federal agency created during the Civil War to protect the greenback against counterfeiters, and its literary origins. It explores an overlooked chapter in the history of American crime and detective fiction, one that has special...

... Agency, Priscilla L. Walton and Manina Jones argue that women writers have found a site for resistance and revision in detective fiction of the hard-boiled tradition. Deeply versed in both the stories of women PIs...

.... 1999. 327 pp. Cloth, $45.00; paper, $16.95. In Detective Agency, Priscilla L. Walton and Manina Jones argue that women writers have found a site for resistance and revision in detective fiction of the hard...

... in a number of literary sub- genres implicitly identified with particular geographic perspectives: diaries and the lyric “I” (the personal), domestic fiction (the home), detective fiction (the bourgeois apartment), regionalist fiction (local communities). Particu- larly compelling is the idea...

... to the overarching thesis, but Roberts’s textually grounded engagement with Enlightenment philosophy helpfully illuminates the philosophical stakes of the individual texts she examines. Roberts’s reading of Poe’s detective fiction is among the highlights. She situates the “hyperrationality” (97) of Poe’s detective...

... of American Detective Fiction. By Pamela Bedore. New York: Palgrave Macmillan. 2013. xi, 204 pp. $90.00. In the traditional narrative of America’s contribution to detective fiction, there is a gap between Edgar Allan Poe’s stories of the 1840s and the hard-boiled fic- tion originating in 1920s...

... America. Whalen situates a selec- tion of Poe’s fiction (including ‘‘The Gold Bug The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym, and his detective fiction more generally) in relation to the emerg- ing publishing industry...

...). In his prologue, Walsh notes that he resisted the temptation to quote Poe’s detective fiction, with one exception. He employs as an epigraph a passage from ‘‘The Mystery of Marie Roget’’ in which Poe’s detective, C. Auguste...

... tales centering on a mysterious sleuth known as the Continental Op, the evolution of Dashiell Hammett’s reputa- tion as one of the twentieth century’s premier authors of crime fiction is thor- oughly mapped. Panek concludes with a contextual discussion of Hammett’s place within the genre of detective...

...Susan Louise Edmunds This essay reads Richard Wright’s Native Son (1940) against Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin (1852), the New Deal, and the intervening history of white women’s sentimental activism. It argues that Native Son is a work of domestic fiction that self-consciously engages...

... of domestic fiction. Victor’s pioneering style has influenced many generations of detective writers, male and female. An introduction by Catherine Ross Nickerson offers insight into the tales as well as commentary on the mystery’s popularity among middle-class readers in the nineteenth century...

... Beecher Stowe, like other citrus growers before her, had to discover the hard way that many years of abundant harvests offer no insurance against a catastrophic freeze. Barbara Packer, University of California, Los Angeles The Web of Iniquity: Early Detective Fiction by American Women. By Catherine...

..., University of California, Los Angeles The Web of Iniquity: Early Detective Fiction by American Women. By Catherine Ross Nickerson. Durham, N.C.: Duke Univ. Press. 1998. xix, 275 pp. Cloth, $49.95; paper, $17.95. In this complex study of detective fiction by American women writers from the Victorian...

..., University of California, Los Angeles The Web of Iniquity: Early Detective Fiction by American Women. By Catherine Ross Nickerson. Durham, N.C.: Duke Univ. Press. 1998. xix, 275 pp. Cloth, $49.95; paper, $17.95. In this complex study of detective fiction by American women writers from the Victorian...

... Beecher Stowe, like other citrus growers before her, had to discover the hard way that many years of abundant harvests offer no insurance against a catastrophic freeze. Barbara Packer, University of California, Los Angeles The Web of Iniquity: Early Detective Fiction by American Women. By Catherine...

... Beecher Stowe, like other citrus growers before her, had to discover the hard way that many years of abundant harvests offer no insurance against a catastrophic freeze. Barbara Packer, University of California, Los Angeles The Web of Iniquity: Early Detective Fiction by American Women. By Catherine...