The Centrality of Crime Fiction in American Literary Culture Routledge Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Literature Series
Coordonnateurs : Bendixen Alfred, Edenfield Olivia Carr
This collection of essays by leading scholars insists on a larger recognition of the importance and diversity of crime fiction in U.S. literary traditions. Instead of presenting the genre as the property of Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler, this book maps a larger territory which includes the domains of Mark Twain, F. Scott Fitzgerald, William Faulkner, Richard Wright, Flannery O?Connor, Cormac McCarthy and other masters of fiction.The essays in this collection pay detailed attention to both the genuine artistry and the cultural significance of crime fiction in the United States. It emphasizes American crime fiction?s inquiry into the nature of democratic society and its exploration of injustices based on race, class, and/or gender that are specifically located in the details of American experience.Each of these essays exists on its own terms as a significant contribution to scholarship, but when brought together, the collection becomes larger than the sum of its pieces in detailing the centrality of crime fiction to American literature. This is a crucial book for all students of American fiction as well as for those interested in the literary treatment of crime and detection, and also has broad appeal for classes in American popular culture and American modernism.
CONTENTS Acknowledgements List of Figures Introduction: Re-searching the Premises: The Centrality of Crime Fiction in American Literary Culture, Alfred Bendixen Foundations: 1 Crime and Detection in Mark Twain Peter Messent 2 Lizzie Borden, Spinster on Trial: Journalism, Literature, and the Borden Trial Karen Roggenkamp 3 Dreiser, Dey, and Dime-Novel Crime: The Case of Nick Carter Nathaniel Williams Modernist Crime: 4 The Gatsby Murder Case: F. Scott Fitzgerald, S. S. Van Dine, and Analytic Detective Fiction in the 1920s Kirk Curnutt 5 Preservation and Promotion: Ellery Queen, Magazine Publishing, and the Marketing of Detective Fiction Matthew Levay 6 Diversions of Furniture and Signature Styles: Hammett, Chandler, Macdonald Lee Clark Mitchell 7 Faulkner and the Criminality of Modernity Deborah Clarke 8 Fatal Eyeballing: Sex, Violence and Intimate Voyeurism in Richard Wright’s Native Son Andrew Warnes Crime After Modernism: 9 Murderous Neglect in Flannery O’Connor’s Fiction Marshall Bruce Gentry 10 Remorse and Redemption: The Crime Fiction of Andre Dubus Olivia Carr Edenfield 11 On Manliness and a Personal Sense of Fitness for Citizenship: Chester Himes and Telling Details in Clothing Norlisha F. Crawford 12 Copy That: Joseph Nazel and African American Crime Narrative in the 1970s Kinohi Nishikawa 13 "Swarming Like an Army": Odyssean Warcraft in Elmore Leonard’s Early Crime Novels" Charles J. Rzepka 14 Cormac McCarthy’s Mosaic of Crime and Evil Allen Josephs Notes on Contributors
Alfred Bendixen is Lecturer in the Departments of English, Gender and Sexuality Studies, American Studies, and First Year Program at Princeton University, USA.
Olivia Carr Edenfield is Professor in the Department of Literature and Philosophy at Georgia Southern University, USA.
Date de parution : 12-2019
15.2x22.9 cm
Date de parution : 06-2017
15.2x22.9 cm
Thème de The Centrality of Crime Fiction in American Literary Culture :
Mots-clés :
Young Man; Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine; Andre Dubus; Big Bounce; Blood Meridian; Hammett’s Red Harvest; Crime Fiction; Detective Fiction; Holloway House; Border Trilogy; Dime Novels; Continental Op; Locked Room Mystery; Ellery Queen; Tall Convict; Mary Fortune; Intimate Voyeurism; Reckless Eyeballing; Tv Representation; Carter Stories; Mystery Magazine; Substitute Child; Detective Genre; Roger Chillingworth; Mass Media Marketplace