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Steere, Elizabeth. "“The mystery of the Myrtle Room”: Reading Wilkie Collins’ The Dead Secret as an Early Female Detective Novel." Victorian Popular Fictions Journal 5, no. 1 (2023): 58–72. http://dx.doi.org/10.46911/yrrl8350.

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While Wilkie Collins’ novels The Moonstone (1868) and The Woman in White (1859-60) have long been accepted as part of the early mystery canon, Collins’ earlier novel The Dead Secret (1857) is rarely included. The Dead Secret is here reconsidered as one of the earliest English female detective novels, revealing its heretofore unrecognised significance to the genre of detective fiction and the evolution of the literary female detective. The Dead Secret’s protagonist, Rosamond, is almost Holmesian in her methodical collection of evidence and tactical lines of questioning to arrive at the solution
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Stoecklein, Mary. "Native Narratives, Mystery Writing, and the Osage Oil Murders: Examining Mean Spirit and The Osage Rose." American Indian Culture and Research Journal 42, no. 3 (2018): 137–54. http://dx.doi.org/10.17953/aicrj.42.3.stoecklein.

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Through analysis of two debut novels, Linda Hogan's Pulitzer-Prize-nominated murdermystery Mean Spirit 1990 and Tom Holm's private eye detective story The Osage Rose 2008, this article considers what Native-authored mystery fiction has to offer in terms of self-representation of Indigenous history and culture. Paying particular attention to detective fiction genre elements—such as the novels' openings, the detectives, the forms of detection, and the resolution—shows how Hogan and Holm employ the mystery genre to present Native narratives about the Osage oil murders, and, given their ability to
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Malmgren, Carl D. "Anatomy of Murder: Mystery, Detective, and Crime Fiction." Journal of Popular Culture 30, no. 4 (1997): 115–35. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.0022-3840.1997.3004_115.x.

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f, f. "Daily life and literature in China's modern times, its recollection and representations: Focusing on ‘Detective Novels’." Society for Chinese Humanities in Korea 85 (December 31, 2023): 355–82. http://dx.doi.org/10.35955/jch.2023.12.85.355.

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Modern China had all the conditions for the development of popular fiction such as detective novels, thanks to the development of various modern media, the expansion of mass education, and urbanization. In addition to the basic principles of presenting a case and resolving it logically, detective novels have secured their own unique territory based on the selection of themes that attract readers' attention, the surprise of unexpected endings, and the scientific knowledge and rational thinking that can convince readers. The popularity of modern detective novels in China is closely related to th
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Novitz, Julian. "Disco Elysium as Gothic fiction." Baltic Screen Media Review 9, no. 1 (2021): 32–42. http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/bsmr-2021-0004.

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Abstract Disco Elysium demonstrates many hallmarks of the Gothic through its storyline and representational elements, particularly its emphasis on the instability of its protagonist, the sense of decline and decay conveyed through its setting, and the interconnected secret histories that are revealed through exploration. Furthermore, many of the game’s stylistic and ludic features, such as its dense description and emotive language, and its overwhelming array of options, interactions, and responses, can be understood as engagements with the uncanny and disorienting excess of the Gothic traditi
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Gomel, Elana. "Mystery, Apocalypse and Utopia: The Case of the Ontological Detective Story." Science Fiction Studies 22, Part 3 (1995): 343–56. https://doi.org/10.1525/sfs.22.3.0343.

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Apocalypse in sf is often linked to a utopian transformation that creates a “brave new world” on the ruins of the old one. This is a pattern that has often been noted by critics. However, a number of sf works display an interesting twist on this pattern, linking the apocalypse and the subsequent utopian transformation to the solution of an ontological mystery. Thus, they form an sf subgenre that might be described as the “ontological detective story.” The typical plot of the ontological detective story, exemplified by Christopher Priest’s Inverted World (1979), centers on the protagonist growi
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Parkinson, Gavin. "The Delvaux Mystery: Painting, the Nouveau Roman, and Art History." Nottingham French Studies 51, no. 3 (2012): 298–313. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/nfs.2012.0029.

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Meant to signal in its parodic title both the causal, deductive conventions of academic art history and those of the detective story, this essay looks at the work of the Belgian artist Paul Delvaux (1897–1994), and discusses the uses to which that œuvre has been put by several of the pioneers of the twentieth-century novel, such as Michel Butor, Alain Robbe-Grillet, Claude Simon, Julio Cortázar, and J.G. Ballard. It goes on to speculate as to why so many French novelists from the 1950s who interrogated specifically narrative form, together with those inspired by their example, responded to Del
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Gómez-de-Tejada, Jesús. "Parodia, intertextualidad y sátira en la narrativa policial de Lorenzo Lunar Cardedo." Studia Romanica Posnaniensia 47, no. 1 (2020): 5–17. http://dx.doi.org/10.14746/strop.2020.471.001.

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Detective fiction as parodic reformulation of genre’s defining patterns has a long history in the Latin American tradition: Borges, Bioy Casares, Soriano, Levrero, Ibargüengoitia, etc. Besides, the evolution of Latin American detective genre has always been characterized by a progressive focalization in the social aspects over the detective story line which has served as a mask to depict in a critical way the flaws of the region’s societies and governments. In nowadays Cuba it could be highlighted the crime narrative of parodic slant by Lorenzo Lunar Cardedo. Among the major features of Lunar
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Freier, Mary P. "A Brief History of Scholarly Study of Detective Fiction, with Particular Attention to the Detective & Mystery Fiction Area of the Popular Culture Association." Collection Management 29, no. 3-4 (2004): 189–96. http://dx.doi.org/10.1300/j105v29n03_14.

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Jang, Kyungjae. "Constructing and Consuming Space in Detective Fiction Tourism: The Case of the Detective Conan Mystery Tour." Journal of Popular Culture 54, no. 6 (2021): 1355–70. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/jpcu.13089.

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Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Detective and mystery fiction – History and criticism"

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Cleveland, William. ""Why is Everyone So Interested in Texts?": The Shifting Role of the Reader in the Genre of Hard-boiled Fiction." Fogler Library, University of Maine, 2007. http://www.library.umaine.edu/theses/pdf/ClevelandW2007.pdf.

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袁洪庚 and Honggeng Yuan. "From conventional to experimental: the makingof Chinese metaphysical detective fiction." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 1999. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B43894422.

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Kindler, Jessica Claire. "Tokuya Higashigawa's After-Dinner Mysteries: Unusual Detectives in Contemporary Japanese Mystery Fiction." PDXScholar, 2013. https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/open_access_etds/1011.

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The detective fiction (tantei shōsetsu) genre is one that came into Japan from the West around the time of the Meiji Restoration (1868), and soon became wildly popular. Again in recent years, detective fiction has experienced a popularity boom in Japan, and there has been an outpouring of new detective fiction books as well as various television and movie adaptations. It is not a revelation that the Japanese detective fiction genre, while rife with imitation and homage to Western works, took a dramatic turn somewhere along the line, away from celebrated models like Poe, Doyle, and Christie, an
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Leps, Marie-Christine. "The apprehension of criminal man, 1876-1913 : an intertextual analysis of knowledge production." Thesis, McGill University, 1985. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=76904.

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Trainin, Sarah Jean. "The rise of mass culture theory and its effect on golden age detective fiction." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 2002. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/2255.

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Griswold, Amy Herring. "Detecting Masculinity: The Positive Masculine Qualities of Fictional Detectives." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2007. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc3971/.

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Detective fiction highlights those qualities of masculinity that are most valuable to a contemporary culture. In mysteries a cultural context is more thoroughly revealed than in any other genre of literature. Through the crimes, an audience can understand not only the fears of a particular society but also the level of calumny that society assigns to a crime. As each generation has needed a particular set of qualities in its defense, so the detective has provided them. Through the detective's response to particular crimes, the reader can learn the delineation of forgivable and unforgivable act
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Hoffman, Megan. "Women writing women : gender and representation in British 'Golden Age' crime fiction." Thesis, University of St Andrews, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10023/11910.

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In this thesis, I examine representations of women and gender in British ‘Golden Age' crime fiction by writers including Margery Allingham, Christianna Brand, Agatha Christie, Ngaio Marsh, Dorothy L. Sayers, Josephine Tey and Patricia Wentworth. I argue that portrayals of women in these narratives are ambivalent, both advocating a modern, active model of femininity, while also displaying with their resolutions an emphasis on domesticity and on maintaining a heteronormative order, and that this ambivalence provides a means to deal with anxieties about women's place in society. This thesis is di
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Hill, Lorna. "Bloody women : a critical-creative examination of how female protagonists have transformed contemporary Scottish and Nordic crime fiction." Thesis, University of Stirling, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/1893/27352.

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This study will explore the role of female authors and their female protagonists in contemporary Scottish and Nordic crime fiction. Authors including Val McDermid, Denise Mina, Lin Anderson and Liza Marklund are just a few of the women who have challenged the expectation of gender in the crime fiction genre. By setting their novels in contemporary society, they reflect a range of social and political issues through the lens of a female protagonist. By closely examining the female characters, all journalists, in Val McDermid’s Lindsay Gordon series; Denise Mina’s Paddy Meehan series; Anna Smith
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Chan, Lit-chung, and 陳烈忠. "Sherlock Holmes, The secret agent, and ideas of justice." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2005. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B31643462.

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Kareno, Emma. "Sherlock's pharmacy : drugs in detective stories, 1860s to 1890s." Thesis, University of Stirling, 1996. http://hdl.handle.net/1893/21824.

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This work examines the significance of drugs in Victorian stories of detection through a selection of detective fiction published between the years 1860 and 1890. The main purpose of the work is to show how these texts make a specific link between drugs and detection, and use this link to engage themselves in questions concerning reading and the consumption of fiction. I wish to argue, first, that drugs play a significant role in Victorian detective stories as a device to produce a sense of mystery and excitement in these texts. Secondly, I shall hope to show how this is achieved especially by
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Books on the topic "Detective and mystery fiction – History and criticism"

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Allen, L. David. CliffsNotes The Detective in Fiction. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., 2002.

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James, P. D. Talking about detective fiction. Alfred A. Knopf, 2009.

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D, James P. Talking About Detective Fiction. Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2009.

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D, James P. Talking about detective fiction. Alfred A. Knopf, 2009.

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D, James P. Talking about detective fiction. Vintage Books, 2011.

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McCaw, Neil. Adapting detective fiction: Crime, Englishness and the TV detectives. Continuum, 2011.

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E, Rollyson Carl, ed. Critical survey of mystery and detective fiction. Salem Press, 2008.

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McCaw, Neil. Adapting detective fiction: Crime, Englishness and the TV detectives. Continuum, 2011.

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Deane, Mansfield-Kelley, and Marchino Lois A, eds. The Longman anthology of detective fiction. Pearson/Longman, 2005.

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1907-, Magill Frank Northen, ed. Critical survey of mystery and detective fiction: Authors. Salem Press, 1988.

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Grimstad, Paul. "The Detective Novel and Film." In The Oxford History of the Novel in English. Oxford University PressOxford, 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780192844729.003.0043.

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Abstract Noting the affinity between modernist aesthetics and the vernacular “entertainment” of genre fiction—in particular, the detective story—this chapter charts the ways in which the style and tone of US detective fiction was intimately bound up with the growth of a Hollywood studio system organized around genres like westerns, adventure stories, musicals, screwball comedy, gangster dramas, and crime stories. The chapter charts the influence of the idea of film noir—conceived as a fusion of US hard-boiled crime fiction and German expressionist cinematography—on detective fiction in both te
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Frye, Katie Berry. "Reading Eudora Welty’s “Petrified Man” and “Old Mr. Marblehall” as Southern Pulp." In Eudora Welty and Mystery. University Press of Mississippi, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.14325/mississippi/9781496842701.003.0003.

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This chapter examines the work of Eudora Welty in relation to the conventions of pulp and genre fiction, specifically that of mystery and detective stories. When read through this lens, Welty’s short fiction reveals “clues,” often in the form of the pulp publications strewn throughout her stories, that direct the reader on interpreting her characters. In “Petrified Man,” the women act as detectives, perusing pulp magazines that ultimately point them towards catching the criminal, and in “Old Mr. Marblehall,” the titular character is a bigamist who reads lowbrow publications in horror and scien
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Haltrin-Khalturina, Elena V. "Dickens and the Variations/Nominations Game-2: The Mystery of Edwin Drood and the Wanders of the Genre." In English Classical Literature in World Culture: Receptions, Transformations, Interpretations. A.M. Gorky Institute of World Literature of the Russian Academy of Sciences, 2024. https://doi.org/10.22455/978-5-9208-0777-9-314-340.

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Dickens's unfinished novel The Mystery of Edwin Drood is often referred to in Russia as a detective novel, the repu- tation it earned during The Golden Age of Detective Fiction, that is a few decades after the book's first publication. The Dickens schol- ars keep track of the history of the novel’s reception, of the shifting ideas concerning the work’s genre and the nature of the “mystery” of the title. It is known that, starting from 1870, Dickens's followers have been attempting to think up a continuation for the novel in various, and not just detective, modes. Among the employed forms and g
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