The detective's companion in crime fiction : a study in sidekicks /
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| Imprint: | Cham : Palgrave Macmillan, 2021. |
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| Description: | 1 online resource. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Crime files Crime files series. |
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| Format: | E-Resource Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12623427 |
Table of Contents:
- 1. Introduction: Step Forward, Sidekicks, Samuel Saunders and Lucy Andrew
- 2. One Fixed Point in a Changing Age : Reframing the Sidekick, Michelle D. Miranda
- 3. Passed by unnoticed : Surveillance and the Street Urchin in Wilkie Collinss The Moonstone, Oriah Amit
- 4. always with the Inspector : The Reader as Sidekick in Mid-Victorian Detective Literature, 1845-1887, Samuel Saunders
- 5. You have a grand gift of silence, Watson : Re-Inventing Agency in Twenty-First-Century Adaptations of Dr Watson, Annette Wren
- 6. A Look of Doglike Devotion : Hercule Poirots Stooges and Foils, J. C. Bernthal
- 7. Finding the Female Sidekick in the Lord Peter Wimsey Novels, Sally Bernadette Beresford-Sheridan
- 8. Pretty, but not so pretty : Marlowes Female Sidekicks and the Domestication of Hard-boiled Detective Fiction, Alexander Howe
- 9. The Anti-Sidekick: Raymond Mouse Alexander, Double Consciousness and the Subversion of the Sidekick in Walter Mosleys Easy Rawlins Mysteries, Nathan Ashman
- 10. 72 Votes: Theorizing the Scapegoat Sidekick in Batman: A Death in the Family, Kwasu Tembo
- 11. Im gonna be the best friend you could ever hope forand the worst enemy you could ever imagine. : Frank Millers All Star Batman & Robin, the Boy Wonder and the Problem of the Boy Sidekick in the Twenty-First-Century Superhero Narrative, Lucy Andrew
- 12. Worlds long on academics, Morse, but woeful short of good detectives : Lewis, Hathaway, and Endeavour; The Changing Roles of Colin Dexters Sidekicks, David Bishop
- 13. Mooncakes and Squashed Fly Biscuits: Otherness in the Wells and Wong series, Alice Nuttall
- 14. Sherlocks Legacy: The Case of the Extraordinary Sidekick, Dominique Gracia.
