Race, gender and empire in American detective fiction
"This book highlights detection's malleability by analyzing the works of particular groups of authors from specific time periods written in response to other texts. Specifically, it traces the roles that gender, race and empire have played in American detective fiction from Edgar Allan Poe...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Jefferson, N.C. :
McFarland & Co., Inc., Publishers,
2013.
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| Online Access: | An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view |
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| Summary: | "This book highlights detection's malleability by analyzing the works of particular groups of authors from specific time periods written in response to other texts. Specifically, it traces the roles that gender, race and empire have played in American detective fiction from Edgar Allan Poe's works through the myriad variations upon them published before 1920 to hard-boiled fiction"-- |
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| Physical Description: | xii, 204 p. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |