Marcia Muller and the female private eye
Subtitle: essays on the novels that defined a subgenre
By: edited by Alexander N. Howe and Christine A. Jackson.
Contributors: Howe, Alexander N., 1973-; Jackson, Christine A., 1951-
Publisher: McFarland & Co.
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Jefferson, N.C
Language: eng
Number of pages: 197
ISBN-13: 9780786438259
Subjects: Muller, Marcia -- Characters -- Sharon McCone; McCone, Sharon (Fictitious character); Private investigators in literature; Women detectives in literature; Detective and mystery stories, American -- History and criticism
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Changing the world, one detective at a time : the feminist ethos of Marcia Muller and Sharon McCone / Winter S. Elliott; title: Crime, punishment, and some change in the McCone series / Chin-jau Chyan; title: Imagining the margins : Muller's explorations of race / Maureen T. Reddy; title: Gender and genre stretching in the non-McCone novels / Pamela E. Bedore; title: Taking Edwin to lunch : developing the female hard-boiled detective in the early McCone novels / Patricia P. Buckler; title: Sharon McCone : from PI to anti-terrorist / Priscilla L. Walton; title: Searching for the past : nostalgia in the McCone novels / Kelly C. Connelly; title: The journey of Sharon McCone, private investigator / Patricia L. Maida; title: Anxious authorship : the detective fiction of Marcia Muller and Gertrude Stein / Jessica V. Datema; title: The lost child : haunting motif in the McCone novels / Harriette C. Buchanan; title: Muller earth : mythic topography in the Soledad County trilogy / Christine A. Jackson; title: The deafening silence of the McCone series / Alexander N. Howe; title: Marcia Muller in the American tradition : still breaching our insecurities / Christine A. Jackson.