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Journal articles on the topic "Women detectives – Fiction"

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Fadhila, Alya Khoirunnisa, and Ida Rochani Adi. "Women Detectives in Detective Fiction: A Formula Analysis on <em>Dublin Murder Squad</em> Series." Lexicon 8, no. 1 (2022): 1. http://dx.doi.org/10.22146/lexicon.v8i1.73421.

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This paper studies the formulation of two women detectives in Tana French’s work, Cassie Maddox and Antoinette Conway, in the Dublin Murder Squad Series by exploring the hard-boiled fiction conventions which underlie the formulation of Tana French’s two female detectives. The objective of this study is to determine how French innovates the hard-boiled fiction conventions in the formation of her women detective characters, Cassie Maddox and Antoinette Conway. By employing formula analysis as theorized by John G. Cawelti (1976), the results of this study show that French innovates the hard-boile

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Knight, Stephen. "Detection and Gender in Early Crime Fiction: Mrs Bucket to Lady Molly." Crime Fiction Studies 3, no. 2 (2022): 89–105. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/cfs.2022.0068.

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Crime fiction is often mistakenly held to be based on books and male detection. In fact, in the nineteenth century periodicals were a major mode of publication and from the mid-century on women inquirers played a recurring role in the developing genre, while most early male detectives were, by later standards, distinctly under-gendered. Chambers’s Edinburgh Journal was a major early source; by the 1860s, female detectives were being created by male writers and in Bleak House (1852–53), Dickens gave Inspector Bucket’s wife distinct inquiring capacities. The major Australian author Mary Fortune

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Orr, David MR. "Dementia and detectives: Alzheimer’s disease in crime fiction." Dementia 19, no. 3 (2018): 560–73. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1471301218778398.

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Fictional representations of dementia have burgeoned in recent years, and scholars have amply explored their double-edged capacity to promote tragic perspectives or normalising images of ‘living well’ with the condition. Yet to date, there has been only sparse consideration of the treatment afforded dementia within the genre of crime fiction. Focusing on two novels, Emma Healey’s Elizabeth is Missing and Alice LaPlante’s Turn of Mind, this article considers what it means in relation to the ethics of representation that these authors choose to cast as their amateur detective narrators women who

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Fasselt, Rebecca. "Crossing genre boundaries: H. J. Golakai's Afropolitan chick-lit mysteries." Feminist Theory 20, no. 2 (2019): 185–200. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1464700119831538.

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Crime fiction by women writers across the globe has in recent years begun to explore the position of women detectives within post-feminist cultural contexts, moving away from the explicit refusal of the heterosexual romance plot in earlier feminist ‘hard-boiled’ fiction. In this article, I analyse Hawa Jande Golakai's The Lazarus Effect (2011) and The Score (2015) as part of the tradition of crime fiction by women writers in South Africa. Joining local crime writers such as Angela Makholwa, Golakai not only questions orthodox conceptions of gender and sexuality in traditional iterations of the

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Smushchynska, Iryna, and Iryna Tsyrkunova. "MODERN FEMALE DETECTIVE, CHARACTERISTICS AND INTERPRETATION." PROBLEMS OF SEMANTICS, PRAGMATICS AND COGNITIVE LINGUISTICS, no. 46 (2024): 40–43. https://doi.org/10.17721/2663-6530.2024.46.02.

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This article explores the development and current trends in the female detective genre, focusing on its transformation within Ukrainian and Spanish literature as a branch of mass literature. Over time, the genre has evolved from traditional mystery narratives to complex stories where women occupy central roles as detectives, often displaying nuanced psychological depth. The Ukrainian female detective novel typically emphasizes social issues, human relationships, and moral dilemmas, presenting protagonists as amateurs who rely on intuition. Conversely, the Spanish approach incorporates broader,

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Meyer, Neele. "Challenging Gender and Genre: Women in Contemporary Indian Crime Fiction in English." Zeitschrift für Anglistik und Amerikanistik 66, no. 1 (2018): 105–17. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/zaa-2018-0010.

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Abstract This paper looks at three Indian crime fiction series by women writers who employ different types of female detectives in contemporary India. The series will be discussed in the context of India’s economic growth and the emergence of a new middle class, which has an impact on India’s complex publishing market. I argue that the authors offer new identification figures while depicting a wide spectrum of female experiences within India’s contemporary urban middle class. In accordance with the characteristics of popular fiction, crime fiction offers the possibility to assume new roles wit

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Miller, Elizabeth Carolyn. "TROUBLE WITH SHE-DICKS: PRIVATE EYES AND PUBLIC WOMEN INTHE ADVENTURES OF LOVEDAY BROOKE, LADY DETECTIVE." Victorian Literature and Culture 33, no. 1 (2005): 47–65. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1060150305000720.

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C. L. (CATHERINE LOUISA)PIRKIS'S“The Murder at Troyte's Hill,” second in her series of stories about Detective Loveday Brooke, begins with Brooke's boss debriefing her on a case: “Griffiths, of the Newcastle Constabulary, has the case in hand…. Those Newcastle men are keen-witted, shrewd fellows, and very jealous of outside interference. They only sent to me under protest, as it were, because they wanted your sharp wits at work inside the house” (528). This is a typical beginning for one of Brooke's adventures, which were published in the London magazineLudgate Monthlyin 1893 and 1894. As one

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Delafield, Catherine. "Women Writers and Detectives in Nineteenth-Century Crime Fiction: The Mothers of the Mystery Genre." English Studies 94, no. 2 (2013): 245–46. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/0013838x.2013.765220.

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Ward, Ian. "Women Writers and Detectives in Nineteenth-Century Fiction: The Mothers of the Mystery Genreby Lucy Sussex, Palgrave Macmillan." King's Law Journal 22, no. 2 (2011): 247–53. http://dx.doi.org/10.5235/096157611796769541.

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Rinaldi, Lucia. "Women Writers and Detectives in Nineteenth-Century Crime Fiction: The Mothers of the Mystery Genre. By Lucy Sussex." European Legacy 17, no. 3 (2012): 426. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10848770.2012.673362.

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Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Women detectives – Fiction"

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Dzirkalis, Anna M. "Investigating the female detective : gender paradoxes in popular British mystery fiction, 1864-1930 /." View abstract, 2007. http://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&res_dat=xri:pqdiss&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:dissertation&rft_dat=xri:pqdiss:3287860.

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Carrasco, Katrina Marie. "Deepwater." PDXScholar, 2015. https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/open_access_etds/2359.

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DEEPWATER is a novel that takes place in Port Townsend, Washington Territory, in 1887. This thesis contains the first sections of the novel, in which detective Alma Rosales goes undercover to infiltrate an opium-smuggling ring. She arrives in the remote outpost where the ring operates, falls in with some waterfront thieves, and gets to work. Soon it becomes apparent that Alma's reports to her Pinkerton employers aren't telling the whole truth. And as she gets cozier with the outlaws of Port Townsend, Alma's own identity and motives come into question. Thematically this novel is an exploration

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Schiller, Beate. "Between afrocentrism and universality : detective fiction by black women." Master's thesis, Universität Potsdam, 2004. http://opus.kobv.de/ubp/volltexte/2005/547/.

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This paper focuses on mysteries written by the Afro-American women authors Barbara Neely and Valerie Wilson Wesley. Both authors place a black woman in the role of the detective - an innovative feature not only in the realm of female detective literature of the past two decades but also with regard to the current discourse about race and class in US-American society.<br><br> This discourse is important because detective novels are considered popular literature and thus a mass product designed to favor commercial instead of literary claims. Thus, the focus is placed on the development of the tw

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Istomina, Julia. "Property, Mobility, and Epistemology in U.S. Women of Color Detective Fiction." The Ohio State University, 2015. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1429191876.

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Smillie, Rachel Jane. "The lady vanishes : women writers and the development of detective fiction." Thesis, University of Aberdeen, 2014. http://digitool.abdn.ac.uk:80/webclient/DeliveryManager?pid=225765.

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The history of detective fiction has frequently centred on three key figures: Edgar Allan Poe, Wilkie Collins and Arthur Conan Doyle. These writers hold a privileged place in the canon of detective fiction and represent key sites in a linear narrative of development which has often overlooked the complexity and variability of the detective genre. This dissertation explores the disappearance of female writers from the critical history of detective fiction. Focusing on the mystery and detective narratives of Mary Elizabeth Braddon, LT Meade, Baroness Emmuska Orczy and CL Pirkis, this project aim

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Jacobson, Karin Kay. "Unsettling Questions, Hysterical Answers: The Woman Detective in Victorian Fiction." The Ohio State University, 1997. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1392764399.

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Ward, Kathryn Ann. "Clients, Colleagues, and Consorts: Roles of Women in American Hardboiled Detective Fiction and Film." Connect to resource, 1988. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=osu1225394427.

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Alvå, Gunilla. "The same procedure? : an analysis of conventional characteristics in contemporary woman detective fiction." Thesis, University West, Department of Social and Behavioural Studies, 2007. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hv:diva-1471.

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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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Barfoot, Nicola. "Frauenkrimi : generic expectations and the reception of recent French and German crime novels by women = Polar féminin /." Frankfurt am Main [u.a.] : Lang, 2007. http://bvbr.bib-bvb.de:8991/F?func=service&doc_library=BVB01&doc_number=015744779&line_number=0002&func_code=DB_RECORDS&service_type=MEDIA.

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Books on the topic "Women detectives – Fiction"

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Sussex, Lucy. Women Writers and Detectives in Nineteenth-Century Crime Fiction. Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2010. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9780230289406.

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Barnett, Colleen A. Mystery women: An encyclopedia of leading women characters in mystery fiction. Ravenstone Books, 1997.

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Marie, Smith, ed. Ms. Murder: The best mysteries featuring women detectives, by the top women writers. Curley, 1990.

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Marié, Smith, ed. Ms. Murder: The best mysteries featuring women detectives, by the top women writers. Xanadu, 1989.

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Irene, Zahava, ed. The Fourth Woman Sleuth Anthology: Contemporary mystery stories by women. Crossing Press, 1991.

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Harwood, Jan. Dangerous women: A Raging Grannies mystery. [publisher not identified], 2011.

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Marks, Kathy. The littlest detective. Harlequin Books, 1996.

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Marks, Kathy. The littlest detective. Harlequin Books, 1996.

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1936-, Skene Melvin David, ed. Investigating women: Female detectives by Canadian writers : an eclectic sampler. Simon & Pierre, 1995.

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Fickling, G. G. Kiss for a killer. Overlook Press, 2006.

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Book chapters on the topic "Women detectives – Fiction"

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Berglund, Birgitta. "Desires and Devices: On Women Detectives in Fiction." In The Art of Detective Fiction. Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2000. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-62768-4_11.

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Sussex, Lucy. "Introduction: Look for the Women." In Women Writers and Detectives in Nineteenth-Century Crime Fiction. Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2010. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9780230289406_1.

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Sussex, Lucy. "‘Origins are Multifarious and Unclean!’: The Beginnings of Crime Fiction." In Women Writers and Detectives in Nineteenth-Century Crime Fiction. Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2010. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9780230289406_2.

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D’Amelio, Elena, and Valentina Re. "A ‘Bottom-Up’ Approach to Transcultural Identities: Petra and Women Detectives in Italian TV Crime Drama." In Contemporary European Crime Fiction. Springer International Publishing, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-21979-5_13.

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AbstractIn her The TV Crime Drama, Turnbull (The TV Crime Drama. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2014) argues that “the portrayal of women in the crime drama series has served as an index of women’s changing role in society while providing a catalyst for debate, both in the popular press and in the field of feminist media studies”. Moving from these premises, our aim is to analyse the Italian series Petra (Sky 2020–) within the larger context of contemporary European TV crime productions, to investigate the recurrences, similarities, and differences in the construction, representation,

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Sussex, Lucy. "The Art of Murder: Anna Katharine Green." In Women Writers and Detectives in Nineteenth-Century Crime Fiction. Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2010. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9780230289406_10.

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Sussex, Lucy. "Conclusion: ‘She Has Got a Murderess in Manuscript in her Bedroom’." In Women Writers and Detectives in Nineteenth-Century Crime Fiction. Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2010. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9780230289406_11.

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Sussex, Lucy. "Mrs Radcliffe as Conan Doyle?" In Women Writers and Detectives in Nineteenth-Century Crime Fiction. Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2010. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9780230289406_3.

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Sussex, Lucy. "‘A Most Preposterous Organ of Wonder’: Catherine Crowe." In Women Writers and Detectives in Nineteenth-Century Crime Fiction. Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2010. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9780230289406_4.

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Sussex, Lucy. "‘I’m a Thief-Taker, Young Lady’." In Women Writers and Detectives in Nineteenth-Century Crime Fiction. Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2010. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9780230289406_5.

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Sussex, Lucy. "Getting Away with Murder: Mary Braddon." In Women Writers and Detectives in Nineteenth-Century Crime Fiction. Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2010. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9780230289406_6.

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Conference papers on the topic "Women detectives – Fiction"

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Nemsadze, Ada. "Magical-Realistic Motifs and Mystic Rituals in Modern Georgian and Latin American Novels (A Man Was Going Down the Road of Otar Chiladze and Lituma en los Andes of Mario Vargas Llosa)." In XII Congress of the ICLA. Georgian Comparative Literature Association, 2025. https://doi.org/10.62119/icla.4.9006.

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Typological analogies are often revealed in fiction texts that are created in different cultural-geographic areas. This fact can be accounted for not only by similar fundamental changes in political and economic-cultural spheres, but by many other reasons as well. Such analogies are particularly frequently revealed through the usage of the method of magical realism. The present research analyzes such analogies. For this purpose, it compares a novel by Peruvian Nobel Prize Winner, Mario Vargas Llosa, Lituma en los Andes (Death in the Andes) (1993), with the novel by a renowned Georgian writer O

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