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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Main Author: Gruesser, John Cullen, 1959-
Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Jefferson, N.C. : McFarland & Co., Inc., Publishers, 2013.
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245 1 0 |a Race, gender and empire in American detective fiction  |h [electronic resource] /  |c John Cullen Gruesser. 
260 |a Jefferson, N.C. :  |b McFarland & Co., Inc., Publishers,  |c 2013. 
300 |a xii, 204 p. 
504 |a Includes bibliographical references and index. 
520 |a "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"--  |c Provided by publisher. 
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650 0 |a Detective and mystery stories, American  |x History and criticism. 
650 0 |a Race in literature. 
650 0 |a Gender identity in literature. 
650 0 |a Imperialism in literature. 
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