Langbeschreibung
"A genuinely original, terrifically interesting book."--Dana Nelson, author of "National Manhood: Capitalist Citizenship and the Imagined Fraternity of White Men"
Inhaltsverzeichnis
PrefaceAcknowledgmentsThe Advent of Detective Fiction and the Postbellum Period1. "To Trace a Lie, to Discover a Disguisse" : Genres of Crime and Secrecy2. "The Eye of Suspicion": The Erotics of Detection in The Dead Letter3. The Loop of Surveillance in The Figure Eight and Hagar's DaughterAnna Katharine Green and the Gilded Age4. " A Woman with a Secret": Knowing and Telling in The Leavenworth Case5. " A Woman's Hand": Good Works and the Woman DetectiveMary Roberts Rinehart and the Modern Era6. "No Place for a Spinster" : The Architecture of Retrospection in The Circular Staircase7. " I suppose They Stood It as Long as They Could": Mothers, Daughters, and Axe Murder in The AlbumAfterwordNotesSelected BibliographyIndex