Twentieth-century crime fiction
Subtitle: gender, sexuality and the body
By: Gill Plain.
Publisher: Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Chicago
Language: eng
Number of pages: 264
Subjects: Detective and mystery stories, English -- History and criticism; Detective and mystery stories, American -- History and criticism; Popular literature -- English-speaking countries -- History and criticism; American fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism; English fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism; Body, Human, in literature; Sex role in literature; Crime in literature; Sex in literature
Other titles: 20th century crime fiction
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [249]-257) and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: Part I - Establishing Paradigms; title: Introduction; title: 1. Sacrificial Bodies:; title: The Corporeal Anxieties of Agatha Christie; title: 2. When Violet Eyes are Smiling:; title: The Love Stories of Raymond Chandler; title: Part II - The 'Normal Science' of Detection; title: Introduction; title: 3. Dividing the Men from the Boys:; title: Joseph Hansen's Economy of the Same; title: 4. Wounded Masculinity and the Homosocial Bond:; title: Fathers and Lovers in the Novels of Dick Francis; title: 5. V. I. Warshawski and the Little Red Shoes:; title: Sara Paretsky's Feminist Fairy Tales; title: 6. Passing/Out:; title: The Paradoxical Possibilities of Detective Delafield; title: Part III - Shifting Paradigms; title: Introduction; title: 7. Out of Order: Lesbian Detection and Textual Pleasure; title: 8. Consuming the Boundaries of Crime:; title: Serial Killing and the Taste for Violence; title: 9. Postscript: The Death of the Detective?; title: Bibliography; title: Index.