The Detective's Companion in Crime Fiction A Study in Sidekicks /

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Tác giả khác: Andrew, Lucy (Biên tập viên), Saunders, Samuel (Biên tập viên)
Tóm tắt:XIII, 311 p. 1 illus.
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Ngôn ngữ:Tiếng Anh
Được phát hành: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2021.
Phiên bản:1st ed. 2021.
Loạt:Crime Files,
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Truy cập trực tuyến:https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-74989-7
Định dạng: Điện tử Sách
Mục lục:
  • 1. Introduction: Step Forward, Sidekicks, Samuel Saunders and Lucy Andrew
  • 2. “One Fixed Point in a Changing Age”: Reframing the Sidekick, Michelle D. Miranda
  • 3. “Passed by unnoticed”: Surveillance and the Street Urchin in Wilkie Collins’s The Moonstone, Oriah Amit
  • 4. “…always with the Inspector”: The Reader as Sidekick in Mid-Victorian ‘Detective Literature’, 1845-1887, Samuel Saunders
  • 5. “You have a grand gift of silence, Watson”: Re-Inventing Agency in Twenty-First-Century Adaptations of Dr Watson, Annette Wren
  • 6. “A Look of Doglike Devotion’”: Hercule Poirot’s Stooges and Foils’, J. C. Bernthal
  • 7. Finding the Female Sidekick in the Lord Peter Wimsey Novels, Sally Bernadette Beresford-Sheridan
  • 8. “Pretty, but not so pretty…”: Marlowe’s Female Sidekicks and the Domestication of Hard-boiled Detective Fiction, Alexander Howe
  • 9. The Anti-Sidekick: Raymond “Mouse” Alexander, Double Consciousness and the Subversion of the Sidekick in Walter Mosley’s Easy Rawlins Mysteries, Nathan Ashman
  • 10. 72 Votes: Theorizing the Scapegoat Sidekick in Batman: A Death in the Family, Kwasu Tembo
  • 11. “I’m gonna be the best friend you could ever hope for—and the worst enemy you could ever imagine.”: Frank Miller’s All Star Batman & Robin, the Boy Wonder and the Problem of the Boy Sidekick in the Twenty-First-Century Superhero Narrative, Lucy Andrew
  • 12. “World’s long on academics, Morse, but woeful short of good detectives”: Lewis, Hathaway, and Endeavour; The Changing Roles of Colin Dexter’s Sidekicks, David Bishop
  • 13. Mooncakes and Squashed Fly Biscuits: Otherness in the Wells and Wong series, Alice Nuttall
  • 14. Sherlock’s Legacy: The Case of the Extraordinary Sidekick, Dominique Gracia.