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Poe's children : connections between tales of terror and detection
- Title
- Poe's children : connections between tales of terror and detection / Tony Magistrale and Sidney Poger.
- Author
- Magistrale, Tony.
- Publication
- New York : Peter Lang, [1999], ©1999.
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- Additional Authors
- Poger, Sidney.
- Description
- 148 pages; 23 cm
- Summary
- "This study traces Edgar Allan Poe's contribution to the Gothic tradition and his invention of the detective tale. It explores the connections between these genres in British and American writers influenced by Poe, such as Arthur Conan Doyle, Robert Louis Stevenson, Thomas Harris, and Stephen King. This book also examines women writers strongly influenced by Poe, such as Joyce Carol Oates, Sara Paretsky, and Sue Grafton.
- The last chapter of the volume considers films - in particular, the Roger Corman Poe series, Chinatown, Seven, and Blade Runner - that connect the horror and detective genres."--BOOK JACKET.
- Subjects
- Gothic revival (Literature)
- Horror tales, American > History and criticism
- Horror tales, English > History and criticism
- Detective and mystery stories, English > History and criticism
- Poe, Edgar Allan, 1809-1849 > Influence
- Motion picture plays > History and criticism
- English fiction > American influences
- Literary form
- Detective and mystery stories, American > History and criticism
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [131]-142) and index.
- Contents
- Ch. 1. Originating Lines: The Importance of Poe -- Ch. 2. Poe's Children: The Conjunction of the Detective and Gothic Tales -- Ch. 3. Poe's Victorian Disguises: The Hound of the Baskervilles and Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde -- Ch. 4. Poe Feminized: Daughters of Fear and Detection -- Ch. 5. Proportioning Poe: The Blurring of Horror and Detection in The Silence of the Lambs -- Ch. 6. The Overlook Hotel and Beyond: Stephen King as Poe's Postmodern Heir -- Ch. 7. Celluloid Poe: Detective Noir Meets Hollywood Gothic.
- ISBN
- 0820440701 (alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 98053779
- OCLC
- ocm40489274
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries