Legacies of the Rue Morgue - Science, Space, and Crime Fiction in France

Informationen zum Autor Andrea Goulet Klappentext Andrea Goulet is Professor of French at the University of Pennsylvania and author of Optiques: The Science of the Eye and the Birth of Modern French Fiction, also available from the University of Pennsylvania Press. Inhaltsverzeichnis Prologue: Poe Chapter 1. Introduction: Mapping Murder PART I: ARCHAEOLOGIES Chapter 2. Quarries and Catacombs: Underground Crime in Second Empire Romans-feuilletons Chapter 3. Skulls and Bones: Paleohistory in Leroux and Leblanc Chapter 4. Crypts and Ghosts: Terrains of National Trauma in Japrisot and Vargas PART II: INTERSECTIONS Chapter 5. Street-Name Mysteries and Private/Public Violence, 1867-2001 PART III: CARTOGRAPHIES Chapter 6. Terrains Vagues : Gaboriau and the Birth of the Cartographic Mystery Chapter 7. Mapping the City: Malet's Mysteries and Butor's Bleston Chapter 8. Zéropa-Land: Balkanization and the Schizocartographies of Dantec and Radoman Epilogue Notes Index Acknowledgments

Product details

• Authors: Andrea Goulet
• Publisher: University of pennsylvania pr
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2015
• EAN: 9780812247794
• ISBN: 978-0-8122-4779-4
• No. of pages: 304
• Series: Critical Authors and Issues; Critical Authors and Issues
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies