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The disabled detective : sleuthing disability in contemporary crime fiction
- Title
- The disabled detective : sleuthing disability in contemporary crime fiction / Susannah B. Mintz.
- Author
- Mintz, Susannah B., 1965-
- Publication
- London, UK ; New York, NY, USA : Bloomsbury Academic, 2020.
- ©2020
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | JFE 19-9346 | Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 |
Details
- Description
- 217 pages; 24 cm
- Summary
- The first book of its kind, The Disabled Detective explores representations of disability in crime fiction, from the earliest days of the genre to contemporary television drama. Susannah B. Mintz examines detective heroes with such conditions as blindness, deafness, paralysis, Asperger's, obsessive compulsive disorder, addiction, war trauma and many other impairments. Examining a wide range of texts, from Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes stories and the works of Agatha Christie to contemporary crime writers such as Jeffrey Deaver and Michael Collins and television dramas such as Monk, this book highlights how often characters with disabilities have been the heroes of crime fiction and how rarely this has been discussed in contemporary criticism.
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Detective and mystery fiction.
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 202-212) and index.
- Call Number
- JFE 19-9346
- ISBN
- 147423822X
- 9781474238229
- OCLC
- 1046603955
- Author
- Mintz, Susannah B., 1965- author.
- Title
- The disabled detective : sleuthing disability in contemporary crime fiction / Susannah B. Mintz.
- Publisher
- London, UK ; New York, NY, USA : Bloomsbury Academic, 2020.
- Copyright Date
- ©2020
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 202-212) and index.
- Research Call Number
- JFE 19-9346