Legacies of the Rue Morgue : : Science, Space, and Crime Fiction in France / / Andrea Goulet.
Taking Edgar Allan Poe's 1841 "The Murders in the Rue Morgue" as an inaugural frame, Andrea Goulet traces shifting representations of violence, space, and nation in French crime fiction from serial novels of the 1860s to cyberpunk fictions today. She argues that the history of spatial...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2015] ©2016 |
| Year of Publication: | 2015 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Critical Authors and Issues
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (304 p.) :; 10 illus. |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- 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