Narratives of enclosure in detective fiction
Subtitle: the locked room mystery
By: Michael Cook
Series: Crime files series
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire [England]; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 210
ISBN-13: 9780230276659
Subjects: Setting (Literature); Detective and mystery stories; Rooms in literature; Space in literature; Place (Philosophy) in literature; History and criticism; Crime in literature
Other titles: Locked room mystery
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Preface; title: Edgar Allan Poe and the detective story narrative; title: The locked compartment: Charles Dickens's 'The signalman' and enclosure in The railway mystery story; title: The body in the library: reading the locked room in Anna Katherine Green's The filigree ball; title: G. K. Chesterton's enclosure of orthodoxy in 'The wrong shape'; title: The hollow text: illusion as theme in John Dickson Carr's The hollow man; title: Jorge Luis Borges and the labyrinth of detection; title: The story is the writer himself: Paul Auster's locked room in City of glass; title: The narrative of enclosure.