Andrea Goulet

Legacies of the Rue Morgue

Science, Space, and Crime Fiction in France

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Produktbeschreibung

Andrea Goulet is Professor of French at the University of Pennsylvania and author of Optiques: The Science of the Eye and the Birth of Modern French Fiction, also available from the University of Pennsylvania Press.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Dezember 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 163mm x 33mm
• Gewicht: 635g
• ISBN-13: 9780812247794
• ISBN-10: 0812247795
• Artikelnr.: 42559134

Autorenporträt

Andrea Goulet is Professor of French at the University of Pennsylvania and author of Optiques: The Science of the Eye and the Birth of Modern French Fiction, also available from the University of Pennsylvania Press.

Inhaltsangabe

Prologue: Poe
Chapter 1. Introduction: Mapping Murder
PART I: ARCHAEOLOGIES
Chapter 2. Quarries and Catacombs: Underground Crime in Second Empire
Romans-feuilletons
Chapter 3. Skulls and Bones: Paleohistory in Leroux and Leblanc
Chapter 4. Crypts and Ghosts: Terrains of National Trauma in Japrisot and
Vargas
PART II: INTERSECTIONS
Chapter 5. Street-Name Mysteries and Private/Public Violence, 1867-2001
PART III: CARTOGRAPHIES
Chapter 6. Terrains Vagues: Gaboriau and the Birth of the Cartographic
Mystery
Chapter 7. Mapping the City: Malet's Mysteries and Butor's Bleston
Chapter 8. Zéropa-Land: Balkanization and the Schizocartographies of Dantec
and Radoman
Epilogue
Notes
Index
Acknowledgments