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The Web of Iniquity: Early Detective Fiction by American Women

The Web of Iniquity: Early Detective Fiction by American Women


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A study of detective fiction written by American women between the American Civil War and World War II. Refuting the iea that no American detective fiction of sustance was produced between the times of Edgar Allan Poe and Dashiell Hammett, the text shows how these women writers blended Gothic elements into domestic fiction to create a unique subgenre that she labels "domestic detective fiction". It focuses on the narrative qualities of the domestic novel tradition and the ways in which it reflected ideologies of domesticity and gender. Also included are a discussion of various rewritings of the Lizzie Borden scandal in this tradition and an afterword on the relation of domestic detective fiction to the hard-boiled style.

Table of Contents:
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

About the Author :
Catherine Ross Nickerson is Associate Professor of American Studies and English at Emory University.

Review :
"The Web of Iniquity presents strikingly original research on an intriguing subject: the origins of the American detective novel in mid-nineteenth-century domestic fiction. Nickerson has hit upon a rich and absorbing subject. No other book has treated this area of women's literary history in America." (Gillian Brown, author of Domestic Individualism, Imagining Self in Nineteenth-Century America.) "A genuinely original, terrifically interesting book." (Dana Nelson, author of National Manhood: Capitalist Citizenship and the Imagined Fraternity of White Men)


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780822322719
  • Publisher: Duke University Press
  • Publisher Imprint: Duke University Press
  • Language: English
  • Sub Title: Early Detective Fiction by American Women
  • ISBN-10: 0822322714
  • Publisher Date: 05 Jan 1999
  • Binding: Paperback
  • No of Pages: 296


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