Isn't Justice Always Unfair?
Subtitle: The Detective in Southern Literature
Publisher: Bowling Green University Popular Press
Published: January 1997
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 369
ISBN-13: 9780879727239
Subjects: General & Literary Fiction; Novels, other prose & writers; Literature - Classics / Criticism; Detective and mystery stories, American; American Novel And Short Story; Mystery And Suspense Fiction; English; Literary Criticism; USA; General; Mystery & Detective Fiction; Poe, Edgar Allan; 1809-1849; Poe, Edgar Allan,; Southern States; American literature; Detective and mystery stories,; History and criticism; Influence
Description: Isn't Justice Always Unfair? explores the uncommonly long and uncommonly rich relationship between the fictional detective and his or her South. It begins with the New Orleans expatriate, Legrand, uncovering Captain Kidd's treasure on an island off Charleston, South Carolina; it covers the satires and parodies of Mark Twain and the polished stories of Melville Davisson Post and Irvin S.

Cobb; and it concludes with surveys of the many good and excellent writers who are using the form of the detective story to compose inquiries into the character of life in the South today. At the center of Isn't Justice Always Unfair? lies an analysis of a most remarkable phenomenon: William Faulkner's exploitation of the genre as an avenue into his postage stamp of Southern experience, Yoknapatawpha County.