The Detective's Companion in Crime Fiction A Study in Sidekicks /
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| Tác giả khác: | , |
| Tóm tắt: | XIII, 311 p. 1 illus. text |
| Ngôn ngữ: | Tiếng Anh |
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Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan,
2021.
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| 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.