A literary examination of the influence of 19th century sleuths on the early hard-boiled investigators, this book explores the importance of works by Edgar Allan Poe, Charles Dickens, Wilkie Collins and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle to the development of detective series by Carroll John Daly, Dashiell Hammett, Raymond Chandler, Brett Halliday, Mickey Spillane, Thomas B. Dewey, John D. MacDonald, Ross Macdonald, Richard S. Prather and William Campbell Gault. Authors from the transitional (1964-1977) and modern periods (1979 to the present) are also discussed to show the ongoing influence of the 19th century detective writers.…mehr
A literary examination of the influence of 19th century sleuths on the early hard-boiled investigators, this book explores the importance of works by Edgar Allan Poe, Charles Dickens, Wilkie Collins and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle to the development of detective series by Carroll John Daly, Dashiell Hammett, Raymond Chandler, Brett Halliday, Mickey Spillane, Thomas B. Dewey, John D. MacDonald, Ross Macdonald, Richard S. Prather and William Campbell Gault. Authors from the transitional (1964-1977) and modern periods (1979 to the present) are also discussed to show the ongoing influence of the 19th century detective writers.
Lewis D. Moore, a retired professor of English, taught at the University of the District of Columbia in Washington for thirty years. He is also the author of Meditations on America: John D. MacDonald's Travis McGee Series and Other Fiction (1994).
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Table of Contents Acknowledgments Preface Introduction Part I: Plot and Setting 1. Frontiers and Boundaries 2. Morality and Immorality: Interconnections in the Detective Narrative 3. Punishment and Its Effects 4. Past Secrets and Present Solutions Part II: Character and Reason 5. Surviving Power: Poe's "The Purloined Letter" and the Hard-Boiled Detective 6. Private and Public Detectives 7. Decision and Control 8. Foreigners and Foreign Places Part III: Theme 9. Undoing the Ties That Bind: Family from Poe to the Hard-Boiled Detective 10. Variations on a Theme: Individualism and the Detective 11. Politics and the Detective 12. Money and Motive 13. The Paradox of Change Part IV: Form and Figurative Language 14. Traditional Mixes: Form and Character 15. Gothic, Melodrama and Realism 16. Allusion and Allegory 17. Sound and Silence 18. Permanence and Impermanence Conclusion: Dominant Images: Poe, Conan Doyle, Hammett and Chandler Works Cited Index
Table of Contents Acknowledgments Preface Introduction Part I: Plot and Setting 1. Frontiers and Boundaries 2. Morality and Immorality: Interconnections in the Detective Narrative 3. Punishment and Its Effects 4. Past Secrets and Present Solutions Part II: Character and Reason 5. Surviving Power: Poe's "The Purloined Letter" and the Hard-Boiled Detective 6. Private and Public Detectives 7. Decision and Control 8. Foreigners and Foreign Places Part III: Theme 9. Undoing the Ties That Bind: Family from Poe to the Hard-Boiled Detective 10. Variations on a Theme: Individualism and the Detective 11. Politics and the Detective 12. Money and Motive 13. The Paradox of Change Part IV: Form and Figurative Language 14. Traditional Mixes: Form and Character 15. Gothic, Melodrama and Realism 16. Allusion and Allegory 17. Sound and Silence 18. Permanence and Impermanence Conclusion: Dominant Images: Poe, Conan Doyle, Hammett and Chandler Works Cited Index
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