"A genuinely original, terrifically interesting book."--Dana Nelson, author of "National Manhood: Capitalist Citizenship and the Imagined Fraternity of White Men"
"A genuinely original, terrifically interesting book."--Dana Nelson, author of "National Manhood: Capitalist Citizenship and the Imagined Fraternity of White Men"
Catherine Ross Nickerson is Associate Professor of American Studies and English at Emory University.
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Preface Acknowledgments The Advent of Detective Fiction and the Postbellum Period 1. "To Trace a Lie, to Discover a Disguisse" : Genres of Crime and Secrecy 2. "The Eye of Suspicion": The Erotics of Detection in The Dead Letter 3. The Loop of Surveillance in The Figure Eight and Hagar's Daughter Anna Katharine Green and the Gilded Age 4. " A Woman with a Secret": Knowing and Telling in The Leavenworth Case 5. " A Woman's Hand": Good Works and the Woman Detective Mary Roberts Rinehart and the Modern Era 6. "No Place for a Spinster" : The Architecture of Retrospection in The Circular Staircase 7. " I suppose They Stood It as Long as They Could": Mothers, Daughters, and Axe Murder in The Album Afterword Notes Selected Bibliography Index
Preface Acknowledgments The Advent of Detective Fiction and the Postbellum Period 1. "To Trace a Lie, to Discover a Disguisse" : Genres of Crime and Secrecy 2. "The Eye of Suspicion": The Erotics of Detection in The Dead Letter 3. The Loop of Surveillance in The Figure Eight and Hagar's Daughter Anna Katharine Green and the Gilded Age 4. " A Woman with a Secret": Knowing and Telling in The Leavenworth Case 5. " A Woman's Hand": Good Works and the Woman Detective Mary Roberts Rinehart and the Modern Era 6. "No Place for a Spinster" : The Architecture of Retrospection in The Circular Staircase 7. " I suppose They Stood It as Long as They Could": Mothers, Daughters, and Axe Murder in The Album Afterword Notes Selected Bibliography Index
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