The Centrality of Crime Fiction in American Literary Culture

Herausgeber: Bendixen, Alfred; Edenfield, Olivia Carr

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Produktbeschreibung

This collection of essays by leading scholars insists on a larger recognition of the importance and diversity of crime fiction in U.S. literary traditions. Instead of presenting the genre as the property of Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler, this book maps a larger territory which includes the domains of Mark Twain, F. Scott Fitzgerald, William Faulkner, Richard Wright, Flannery O'Connor, Cormac McCarthy and other masters of fiction.The essays in this collection pay detailed attention to both the genuine artistry and the cultural significance of crime fiction in the United States. It emphasizes American crime fiction's inquiry into the nature of democratic society and its exploration of injustices based on race, class, and/or gender that are specifically located in the details of American experience.Each of these essays exists on its own terms as a significant contribution to scholarship, but when brought together, the collection becomes larger than the sum of its pieces in detailing the centrality of crime fiction to American literature. This is a crucial book for all students of American fiction as well as for those interested in the literary treatment of crime and detection, and also has broad appeal for classes in American popular culture and American modernism.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 316
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. Dezember 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 460g
• ISBN-13: 9780367878740
• ISBN-10: 0367878747
• Artikelnr.: 58483335

Autorenporträt

Alfred Bendixen is Lecturer in the Departments of English, Gender and Sexuality Studies, American Studies, and First Year Program at Princeton University, USA. Olivia Carr Edenfield is Professor in the Department of Literature and Philosophy at Georgia Southern University, USA.

Inhaltsangabe

CONTENTS
Acknowledgements
List of Figures
Introduction: Re-searching the Premises: The Centrality of Crime Fiction in
American Literary Culture, Alfred Bendixen
Foundations:
1 Crime and Detection in Mark Twain
Peter Messent
2 Lizzie Borden, Spinster on Trial: Journalism, Literature, and the Borden
Trial
Karen Roggenkamp
3 Dreiser, Dey, and Dime-Novel Crime: The Case of Nick Carter
Nathaniel Williams
Modernist Crime:
4 The Gatsby Murder Case: F. Scott Fitzgerald, S. S. Van Dine, and Analytic
Detective Fiction in the 1920s
Kirk Curnutt
5 Preservation and Promotion: Ellery Queen, Magazine Publishing, and the
Marketing of Detective Fiction
Matthew Levay
6 Diversions of Furniture and Signature Styles: Hammett, Chandler,
Macdonald
Lee Clark Mitchell
7 Faulkner and the Criminality of Modernity
Deborah Clarke
8 Fatal Eyeballing: Sex, Violence and Intimate Voyeurism in Richard
Wright's Native Son Andrew Warnes
Crime After Modernism:
9 Murderous Neglect in Flannery O'Connor's Fiction
Marshall Bruce Gentry
10 Remorse and Redemption: The Crime Fiction of Andre Dubus
Olivia Carr Edenfield
11 On Manliness and a Personal Sense of Fitness for Citizenship: Chester
Himes and Telling Details in Clothing
Norlisha F. Crawford
12 Copy That: Joseph Nazel and African American Crime Narrative in the
1970s
Kinohi Nishikawa
13 "Swarming Like an Army": Odyssean Warcraft in Elmore Leonard's Early
Crime Novels" Charles J. Rzepka
14 Cormac McCarthy's Mosaic of Crime and Evil
Allen Josephs
Notes on Contributors