Fiction, crime, and empire : clues to modernity and postmodernism /
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| Author / Creator: | Thompson, Jon, 1959- |
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| Imprint: | Urbana : University of Illinois Press, c1993. |
| Description: | 200 p. ; 23 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/1479815 |
Table of Contents:
- 1. Preliminary Mappings: Modernism and Genre Fiction
- Pt. I. The Emergence of the Modern Detective Hero. 2. The Power of Knowledge: Poe's Detective Fiction and the Ideology of Rationalism. 3. The Adventurous Detective: Conan Doyle and Imperialism
- Pt. II. Empire and Espionage: The "Great Game" Begins. 4. The Heroic Spy Novel: Kim and the Rhetoric of the Great Game. 5. The Ironic Spy Novel: Anarchy, Irony, and Empire in The Secret Agent
- Pt. III. Modernists and Detectives. 6. Modernism and the "Search for a Remoter Something" 7. Popular Modernisms
- Pt. IV. Postmodern Crime Fiction. 8. Agents and Human Agency in the Postmodern World. Conclusion: Postmodern Fictions of Crime.