Legacies of the Rue Morgue : Science, Space, and Crime Fiction in France.
Title:
Legacies of the Rue Morgue : Science, Space, and Crime Fiction in France.
Author:
Goulet, Andrea.
ISBN:
9780812292169
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (305 pages)
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Critical Authors and Issues
Contents:
Cover -- Legacies of the Rue Morgue -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- CONTENTS -- Prologue: Poe -- Chapter 1. Introduction: Mapping Murder -- PART I: ARCHAEOLOGIES -- Chapter 2. Quarries and Catacombs: Underground Crime in Second Empire Romans-feuilletons -- Chapter 3. Skulls and Bones: Paleohistory in Leroux and Leblanc -- Chapter 4. Crypts and Ghosts: Terrains of National Trauma in Japrisot and Vargas -- PART II: INTERSECTIONS -- Chapter 5. Street-Name Mysteries and Private/Public Violence, 1867-2001 -- PART III: CARTOGRAPHIES -- Chapter 6. Terrains Vagues: Gaboriau and the Birth of the Cartographic Mystery -- Chapter 7. Mapping the City: Malet's Mysteries and Butor's Bleston -- Chapter 8. Zéropa-Land: Balkanization and the Schizocartographies of Dantec and Radoman -- Notes -- Index -- Acknowledgments.
Abstract:
Taking Edgar Allan Poe's 1841 "The Murders in the Rue Morgue" as an inaugural frame, Andrea Goulet traces the shifting representations of violence, space, and nation in French crime fiction from serial novels of the 1860s to cyberpunk fictions today.
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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