Feminism in Women's Detective Fiction / / ed. by Glenwood Irons.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press eBook-Package Archive 1933-1999
• MitwirkendeR: Addison Roberts, Jeanne,; Campbell, SueEllen,; Christiansen, Scott,; Gregory Klein, Kathleen,; Irons, Glenwood,; Leonardi, Susan J.,; Mason, Bobbie Ann,; Nixon, Nicola,; Pope, Rebecca A.,; Tomc, Sandra,; Warthling Roberts, Joan,; Wilson, Ann,
• HerausgeberIn: Irons, Glenwood,
• Place / Publishing House: Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2016]; ©1995
• Year of Publication: 2016
• Language: English
• Series: Heritage
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (216 p.)

Names such as Sherlock Holmes, Hercule Poirot, and Sam Spade are perhaps better known than the names of the authors who created them. The woman detective has also had worldwide appeal; yet, with the exception of Christie's Miss Marple, the names of female detectives and their authors have only...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction: Gender and Genre: The Woman Detective and the Diffusion of Generic Voices
• 1. Amelia Butterworth: The Spinster Detective
• 2. The Detective Heroine and the Death of Her Hero: Dorothy Sayers to P.O. James
• 3. Gray Areas: P.O. James’s Unsuiting of Cordelia
• 4. Questing Women: The Feminist Mystery after Feminism
• 5. From Spinster to Hipster: The 'Suitability' of Miss Marple and Anna Lee
• 6. Nancy Drew: The Once and Future Prom Queen
• 7. Feminist Murder: Amanda Cross Reinvents Womanhood
• 8. Murders Academic: Women Professors and the Crimes of Gender
• 9. Talkin’ Trash and Kickin’ Butt: Sue Grafton's Hard-boiled Feminism
• 10. The Female Dick and the Crisis of Heterosexuality
• 11. ‘Friends Is a Weak Word for It’: Female Friendship and the Spectre of Lesbianism in Sara Paretsky
• 12. Habeas Corpus: Feminism and Detective Fiction
• Contributors