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OverviewThis book explores the vast array of animals that populate detective fiction. If the genre begins, as is widely supposed, with Edgar Allan Poe’s “Murders in the Rue Morgue” (1841), then detective fiction’s very first culprit is an animal. Animals, moreover, consistently appear as victims, clues, and companions, while the abstract conception of animality is closely tied to the idea of criminality. Although it is often described as an essentially conservative form, detective fiction can unsettle the binary of human and animal to intersect with developing concerns in animal studies: animal agency, the ethical complexities of human/animal interaction, the politics and literary aesthetics of violence, and animal metaphor. Gathering its 14 essays into sections on ontologies, ethics, politics, and forms, Animals in Detective Fiction provides a compelling and nuanced analysis of the central role creatures play in this enduringly popular and continually morphing literary form. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Ruth Hawthorn , John MillerPublisher: Springer International Publishing AG Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan Edition: 1st ed. 2022 Weight: 0.555kg ISBN: 9783031092404ISBN 10: 3031092406 Pages: 311 Publication Date: 07 December 2022 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Manufactured on demand  We will order this item for you from a manufactured on demand supplier. Table of ContentsOrigins and Evolutions: The Brutal History of Detective Fiction.Ontologies. Tigers, Criminals, Rogues: Animality in Dickens’ Detective Fiction. Quantum Entanglements in Arthur Conan Doyle’s The Hound of the Baskervilles. Wolverines, Werewolves and Demon Dogs: Animality, Criminality and Classification in James Ellroy’s L.A. Quartet. Ethics. The Psittacine Witness: Parrot Talk and Animal Ethics in Earl Derr Biggers’ The Chinese Parrot and Earl Stanley Gardner’s The Case of the Perjured Parrot. Ecology, Capability and Companion Species: Conflicting Ethics in Nevada Barr’s Blood Lure. Laboratory Tech-Noir: Genre, Narrative Form, and the Literary Model Organism in Jay Hosking’s Three Years with the Rat. Reptiles, Buddhism, and Detection in John Burdett’s Bangkok 8. Politics. Animals, Biopolitics, and Sensation Fiction: M. E. Braddon’s Lady Audley’s Secret. “The Motto of the Mollusc”: Patricia Highsmith and the Semiotics of Snails. “Before the white man came, when animals still talked”: Colonial Creatures in Sherman Alexie’s Indian Killer and Adrian C. Louis’s Skins. Forms. Aping the Classics: Terry Pratchett’s Satirical Animals and Detective Fiction. Animal Image and Human Logos in Graphic Detective Fiction. “As easy to spot as a kangaroo in a dinner jacket”: Animetaphor in Raymond Chandler and Jonathan Lethem.Reviews“A corrective volume that successfully sets the record straight, Animals and Detective Fiction is the starting point for further literary scholarship on genre fiction and animal studies.” (Dominic O’Key, The Year’s Work in Critical and Cultural Theory, May 8, 2023) Author InformationRuth Hawthorn is Senior Lecturer in American Literature at the University of Lincoln. She is currently completing a monograph on American detective fiction for the BAAS Paperbacks series with Edinburgh University Press. Her research interests include crime fiction, the literature of LA, and ecocriticism. John Miller is Senior Lecturer in Nineteenth-Century Literature at the University of Sheffield, President of ASLE-UKI (Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment, UK and Ireland), and co-editor of Palgrave Studies in Animals in Literature. His books include Empire and the Animal Body (Anthem, 2014) and The Heart of the Forest (British Library Publishing, 2022). Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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