Catherine Ross Nickerson

The Web of Iniquity

Early Detective Fiction by American Women

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Produktbeschreibung

"A genuinely original, terrifically interesting book."--Dana Nelson, author of "National Manhood: Capitalist Citizenship and the Imagined Fraternity of White Men"

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 296
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Januar 1999
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 148mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 458g
• ISBN-13: 9780822322719
• ISBN-10: 0822322714
• Artikelnr.: 21859822

Autorenporträt

Catherine Ross Nickerson

Inhaltsangabe

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