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The woman detective : gender & genre

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Description

x, 260 pages; 24 cm

Subject

Genre/Form

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Note

Bibliography (note)

Contents

Acknowledgments (p.ix) -- Introduction (p.1) -- 1. British policewo/men: 1864 (p.15) -- 2. Women detectives in the American dime novel: 1880-1904 (p.31) -- 3. Britain's turn-of-the-century "Lady Detective": 1891-1910 (p.53) -- 4. The lady Detective's Yankee cousin: 1906-15 (p.75) -- 5. How golden was the golden age? British and American sleuths between the wars (p.95) -- 6. The hard-boiled private eye and her classical competition: 1928-63 (p.122) -- 7. Modern detectives: 1972-84 (p.149) -- 8. The moderns continue: variations on a theme (p.173) -- 9. Female-male partnerships: 1924-78 (p.185) -- 10. An unsuitable job for a feminist? (p.200).
Cont.): Afterword (p.223) -- Bibliography (p.230) -- Indexes (p.251).

ISBN

LCCN

87029520

OCLC

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library