Marcia Muller and the female private eye : essays on the novels that defined a subgenre /

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Bibliographic Details
Imprint:	Jefferson, N.C. : McFarland & Co., c2008.
Description:	vi, 197 p. ; 23 cm.
Language:	English
Subject:	Muller, Marcia -- Characters -- Sharon McCone. McCone, Sharon -- (Fictitious character) Muller, Marcia. McCone, Sharon (Fictitious character) Private investigators in literature. Women detectives in literature. Detective and mystery stories, American -- History and criticism. Detective and mystery stories, American. Private investigators in literature. Women detectives in literature. Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/7363356

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Other authors / contributors:	Howe, Alexander N., 1973- Jackson, Christine A., 1951-
ISBN:	9780786438259 (pbk. : alk. paper) 0786438258 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index.

Table of Contents:

Introduction: Re-Reading Marcia Muller-Gender, Genre, and the Trauma of Interpretation
Part I. Gender
1. Changing the World, One Detective at a Time: The Feminist Ethos of Marcia Muller and Sharon McCone
2. Crime, Punishment, and Some Change in the McCone Series
3. Imagining the Margins: Muller's Explorations of Race
4. Gender and Genre Stretching in the Non-McCone Novels
Part II. Genre
5. Taking Edwin to Lunch: Developing the Female Hard-Boiled Detective in the Early McCone Novels
6. Sharon McCone: From PI to Anti-Terrorist
7. Searching for the Past: Nostalgia in the McCone Novels
8. The Journey of Sharon McCone, Private Investigator
Part III. Trauma
9. Anxious Authorship: The Detective Fiction of Marcia Muller and Gertrude Stein
10. The Lost Child: Haunting Motif in the McCone Novels
11. Muller Earth: Mythic Topography in the Soledad County Trilogy
12. The Deafening Silence of the McCone Series
Conclusion: Marcia Muller in the American Tradition: Still Breaching Our Insecurities
About the Contributors
Index

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