TY - BOOK ID - 128807462 TI - Race, Gender and Empire in American Detective Fiction PY - 2013 SN - 9780786465361 PB - Jefferson (N.C.) : McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, DB - UniCat KW - Detective and mystery stories, American KW - Race in literature. KW - Gender identity in literature. KW - Imperialism in literature. KW - History and criticism. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:128807462 AB - "This book highlights detection's malleability by analyzing the works of particular groups of authors from specific time periods written in response to other texts. Specifically, it traces the roles that gender, race and empire have played in American detective fiction from Edgar Allan Poe's works through the myriad variations upon them published before 1920 to hard-boiled fiction"-- ER -