Women Writers and Detectives in Nineteenth-Century Crime Fiction : The Mothers of the Mystery Genre / by L. Sussex.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sussex, Lucy, 1957-

Series:

Crime Files, 2947-8359

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Fiction.

Literature, Modern--19th century.

Literature, Modern.

European literature.

Sex.

Fiction Literature.

Nineteenth-Century Literature.

European Literature.

Gender Studies.

Local Subjects:

Fiction Literature.

Nineteenth-Century Literature.

European Literature.

Gender Studies.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (229 p.)

Edition:

1st ed. 2010.

Place of Publication:

London : Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This book is a study of the 'mothers' of the mystery genre. Traditionally the invention of crime writing has been ascribed to Poe, Wilkie Collins and Conan Doyle, but they had formidable women rivals, whose work has been until recently largely forgotten. The purpose of this book is to 'cherchez les femmes', in a project of rediscovery.

Contents:

Cover; Contents; List of Illustrations; Foreword; Acknowledgements; Introduction: Look for the Women; 1 'Origins are Multifarious and Unclean!': The Beginnings of Crime Fiction; 2 Mrs Radcliffe as Conan Doyle?; 3 'A Most Preposterous Organ of Wonder': Catherine Crowe; 4 'I'm a Thief-Taker, Young Lady'; 5 Getting Away with Murder: Mary Braddon; 6 'Dead! And ... Never Called Me Mother': Ellen (Mrs Henry) Wood; 7 The (Feminine) Eye of the Law: Mary Helena Fortune; 8 A Jill-of-All-Writing-Trades: Metta Victoria Fuller Victor ('Seeley Regester'); 9 The Art of Murder: Anna Katharine Green

Conclusion: 'She Has Got a Murderess in Manuscript in her Bedroom'A Timeline of Early True Crime and its Fictions; Bibliography; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 191-205) and index.

ISBN:

9786612997389

9781282997387

1282997386

9780230289406

0230289401

OCLC:

696332729