TY  - BOOK
AU  - Gruesser,John Cullen
ED  - ebrary, Inc.
TI  - Race, gender and empire in American detective fiction
AV  - PS374.D4 G83 2013eb
U1  - 813/.087209355 23
PY  - 2013///
CY  - Jefferson, N.C.
PB  - McFarland & Co., Inc., Publishers
KW  - Detective and mystery stories, American
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - Race in literature
KW  - Gender identity in literature
KW  - Imperialism in literature
KW  - Electronic books
KW  - local
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Electronic reproduction; Palo Alto, Calif.; ebrary; 2013; Available via World Wide Web; Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries
N2  - "This book highlights detection's malleability by analyzing the works of particular groups of authors from specific time periods written in response to other texts. Specifically, it traces the roles that gender, race and empire have played in American detective fiction from Edgar Allan Poe's works through the myriad variations upon them published before 1920 to hard-boiled fiction"--
UR  - http://site.ebrary.com/lib/daystar/Doc?id=10752759
ER  -