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Collecting To The Core: American Crime Fiction, Michael Adams
Collecting To The Core: American Crime Fiction, Michael Adams
Publications and Research
Overview of key secondary works analyzing American crime fiction: general works, works dealing with specific periods, works dealing with crime fiction by women and African Americans.
The Masked Other: Patricia Highsmith In Cold War American Culture, Natalie Weinstein
The Masked Other: Patricia Highsmith In Cold War American Culture, Natalie Weinstein
Senior Theses and Projects
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The Genderization Of Crime Fiction From The Victorian Era To The Modern Day, Ariana Scott-Zechlin
The Genderization Of Crime Fiction From The Victorian Era To The Modern Day, Ariana Scott-Zechlin
Book Collecting Contest Essays
Although Victorian crime fiction was originally “feminine” in its sensation fiction origins, it became increasingly masculinized as the genre developed. Eventually, Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes stories set forth the detective duo archetype of two white middle-class males, and it has remained the genre’s defining model ever since. This essay describes a book collection which explores this transition from feminine to masculine in the crime fiction genre of British literature and questions to what extent modern day authors are both challenging this model and remaining confined by it.
Sin And Guilt In The Fiction Of John Gregory Dunne, Michael Adams
Sin And Guilt In The Fiction Of John Gregory Dunne, Michael Adams
Publications and Research
John Gregory Dunne depicts his characters' obsession with guilt in his first two novels: True Confessions (1977) and Dutch Shea, Jr. (1982).