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Author:   Ruth Hawthorn ,  John Miller
Publisher:   Springer International Publishing AG
Imprint:   Palgrave Macmillan
Edition:   1st ed. 2022
Weight:   0.555kg
ISBN:  

9783031092404

ISBN 10:   3031092406
Pages:   311
Publication Date:   07 December 2022
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Origins 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.

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“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 Information

Ruth 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). 

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