Overview

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.

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Author:   Lewis D. Moore
Publisher:   McFarland & Co Inc
Imprint:   McFarland & Co Inc
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.10cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.290kg
ISBN:  

9780786477715

ISBN 10:   0786477717
Pages:   212
Publication Date:   24 November 2014
Recommended Age:   From 18 years
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Available To Order  
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Table of Contents

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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an informative publication which opens old capers, so to speak, when it comes to motives and other important features of detective and hard-boiled fiction <i>Popcultureshelf.com</i>.

Author Information

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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