دانلود کتاب Race, Gender and Empire in American Detective Fiction

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Dedication
Epigraph
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Preface
Introduction: Manipulation, Malleability and Metafiction in American Detection
ONE • “Having defeated him in his own castle”: Character Rivalry, Authorial Sleight of Hand and Generic Fluidity in Edgar Allan Poe’s Dupin Tales
TWO • Expanding on Poe: Varieties of Detection in Key American Literary Texts, 1850–1882
THREE • Subverting and Re-Entrenching Traditional Gender Roles: Female Sleuths, Dangerous Women and the Imperial Origins of Hard-Boiled Fiction
FOUR • Detecting Empire Abroad and at Home: Interrogations of United States Overseas Expansion and Jim Crow in Early African American Detective Writing
Coda: Black Freedom, Mythic Heroism and Hard-Boiled Motherhood in Contemporary American Detective Fiction
Appendix: Interviews with Valerie Wilson Wesley (May 2003, January and February 2013)
Chapter Notes
Works Cited
Index