Detective Agency Women Rewriting the Hard-Boiled Tradition

Name: Detective Agency Women Rewriting the Hard-Boiled Tradition
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ISBN: 9780520215085

ISBN-10: 0520215087

ISBN-13: 9780520215085

Edition: 1999

Authors: Priscilla L. Walton, Manina Jones

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Since the late 1970s, a subgenre of crime fiction, written by women and featuring a professional woman investigator, has exploded on the popular fiction market. Priscilla L. Walton and Manina Jones focus on this recent proliferation of women writers of detective fiction, providing the first book-length study of the historical and societal changes that fueled this popularity, along with insightful and entertaining readings of the texts themselves. Walton and Jones place the genre within its aesthetic, social, and economic contexts, reading it as an index of cultural beliefs. Addressing the ways that Sara Paretsky, Sue Grafton, Marcia Muller, and others work through the conventions of the…

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List price: $33.95
Copyright year: 1999
Publisher: University of California Press
Publication date: 5/31/1999
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 327
Size: 0.59" wide x 0.90" long x 0.08" tall
Weight: 1.100
Language: English

Jennifer Andrews is an Assistant Professor in the Department of English at the University of New Brunswick. Priscilla L. Walton is a Professor in the Department of English at Carleton University. The late Arnold E. Davidson was a Research Professor of Canadian Studies at Duke University.



List of Figures


Acknowledgments


Introduction



The Private Eye and the Public: Professional Women Detectives and the Business of Publishing



Gumshoe Metaphysics: Reading Popular Culture and Formula Fiction



Does She or Doesn't She?: The Problematics of Feminist Detection



The Text as Evidence: Linguistic Subversions



Private I: Viewing (through) the (Female) Body



Plotting against the Law: Outlaw Agency



"She's Watching the Detectives": The Woman PI in Film and Television


Appendix


Notes


Works cited


Index