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Author : Garyn G. Roberts
Release : 1990
Genre : American fiction
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Book Rating : 757/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Old Sleuth's Freaky Female Detectives by : Garyn G. Roberts
Download or read book Old Sleuth's Freaky Female Detectives written by Garyn G. Roberts. This book was released on 1990. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection provides a concentrated sampling of female detective stories from the Old Sleuth serials.
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Release : 1990
Genre : American fiction
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Book Rating : 763/5 ( reviews)
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Author : Sara Lodge
Release : 2024-11-05
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 881/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Mysterious Case of the Victorian Female Detective by : Sara Lodge
Download or read book The Mysterious Case of the Victorian Female Detective written by Sara Lodge. This book was released on 2024-11-05. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A revelatory history of the women who brought Victorian criminals to account--and how they became a cultural sensation From Wilkie Collins to the adventures of Sherlock Holmes, the traditional image of the Victorian detective is male. Few people realise that women detectives successfully investigated Victorian Britain, working both with the police and for private agencies, which they sometimes managed themselves. Sara Lodge recovers these forgotten women's lives. She also reveals the sensational role played by the fantasy female detective in Victorian melodrama and popular fiction, enthralling a public who relished the spectacle of a cross-dressing, fist-swinging heroine who got the better of love rats, burglars, and murderers alike. How did the morally ambiguous work of real women detectives, sometimes paid to betray their fellow women, compare with the exploits of their fictional counterparts, who always save the day? Lodge's book takes us into the murky underworld of Victorian society on both sides of the Atlantic, revealing the female detective as both an unacknowledged labourer and a feminist icon.
Author : P. Bedore
Release : 2013-11-07
Genre : Social Science
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Book Rating : 655/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Dime Novels and the Roots of American Detective Fiction by : P. Bedore
Download or read book Dime Novels and the Roots of American Detective Fiction written by P. Bedore. This book was released on 2013-11-07. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book reveals subversive representations of gender, race and class in detective dime novels (1860-1915), arguing that inherent tensions between subversive and conservative impulses—theorized as contamination and containment—explain detective fiction's ongoing popular appeal to readers and to writers such as Twain and Faulkner.
Author : Philippa Gates
Release : 2011-04-22
Genre : Performing Arts
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Book Rating : 065/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Detecting Women by : Philippa Gates
Download or read book Detecting Women written by Philippa Gates. This book was released on 2011-04-22. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Finalist for the 2012 Edgar Award in the Best Critical/Biographical Category presented by the Mystery Writers of America In this extensive and authoritative study of over 300 films, Philippa Gates explores the "woman detective" figure from her pre-cinematic origins in nineteenth century detective fiction through her many incarnations throughout the history of Hollywood cinema. Through the lens of theories of gender, genre, and stardom and engaging with the critical concepts of performativity, masquerade, and feminism, Detecting Women analyzes constructions of the female investigator in the detective genre and focuses on the evolution of her representation from 1929 to today. While a popular assumption is that images of women have become increasingly positive over this period, Gates argues that the most progressive and feminist models of the female detective exist in mainstream film's more peripheral products such as 1930's B-picture and 1970's Blaxploitation films. Offering revisions and new insights into peripheral forms of mainstream film, Gates explores this space that allows a fantasy of resolution of social anxieties about crime and, more interestingly, gender, in the 20th and early 21st centuries. The author's innovative, engaging, and capacious approach to this important figure within feminist film history breaks new ground in the field of gender and film studies.
