Research Catalog
The web of iniquity : early detective fiction by American women
- Title
- The web of iniquity : early detective fiction by American women / Catherine Ross Nickerson.
- Author
- Nickerson, Catherine Ross.
- Publication
- Durham, NC : Duke University Press, 1998.
Items in the Library & Off-site
Filter by
1 Item
| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text | Use in library | PS374.D4 N532 1998 | Off-site |
Details
- Description
- xix, 275 pages; 24 cm
- Subject
- 1800-1999
- Detective and mystery stories, American > History and criticism
- American fiction > Women authors > History and criticism
- American fiction > 19th century > History and criticism
- American fiction > 20th century > History and criticism
- Women and literature > United States > History
- 18.06 Anglo-American literature
- American fiction
- American fiction > Women authors
- Detective and mystery stories, American
- Women and literature
- Frauenroman
- Kriminalroman
- Misdaadromans
- Amerikaans
- Vrouwelijke auteurs
- Roman policier américain > Femmes écrivains > Histoire et critique
- Roman policier américain > 19e siècle > Histoire et critique
- Roman policier américain > 20e siècle > Histoire et critique
- Femmes et littérature > États-Unis > Histoire
- Geschichte 1865-1941
- United States
- USA
- Genre/Form
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 219-268) and index.
- Contents
- The advent of detective fiction and the postbellum period. "To trace a lie, to discover a disguise": genres of crime and secrecy -- "The eye of suspicion": the erotics of detection in The Dead letter -- The loop of surveillance in The Figure eight and Hagar's Daughter -- Anna Katharine Green and the Gilded Age. "A Woman with a secret": knowing and telling in The Leavenworth case -- "A Woman's hand": good works and the woman detective -- Mary Roberts Rinehart and the modern era. "No place for a spinster": the architecture of retrospection in The Circular staircase -- "I suppose they stood it as long as they could": mothers, daughters, and axe murder in The Album.
- ISBN
- 082232251X
- 9780822322511
- 0822322714
- 9780822322719
- LCCN
- 98008397
- OCLC
- ocm39235549
- 39235549
- SCSB-738672
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library