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  title info:
    non sort: The
    title: boy detectives
    sub title: essays on the Hardy Boys and others
  name:
    name part: Cornelius, Michael G.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: ncu
    date issued: 2010
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: ix, 210 pages ; 23 cm.
  abstract: "This collection of eleven essays examines the boy detective and his genre, addressing the issues of these characters, heirs to the patriarchy yet still concerned with first crushes and soda shop romances. Series explored include the Hardy Boys, Tow Swift, the Three Investigators, Christopher Cool and Tim Murphy, also works by Astrid Lindgren, Mark Haddon, and Joe Meno"--Provided by publisher.
  table of contents: Introduction : the nomenclature of boy sleuths / Michael G. Cornelius -- A Hardy Boys' identity narrative and The tower treasure / Larry T. Shillock -- Hardy camaraderie : boy sleuthing and male community in the Hardy Boys mysteries / C.M. Gill -- Terminal immaterial : the uncertain subject of the Hardy Boys airport mysteries / Christopher Schaberg -- Strategies of adaptation : the Hardy Boys on television / Brian Taves -- Natural detective work : ideas about nature in the early Tom Swift books / Elizabeth D. Blum -- Tim Murphy : superhero without a cape / Fred Erisman -- Adventures and affect : the character of the boy detective and orphan in Astrid Lindgren's Rasmus and the tramp / Charlotte Beyer -- The power of three : Alfred Hitchcock's three investigators series / Alan Pickrell -- Clashing genres : (no) sex and (no) violence in the Christopher Cool, TEEN agent series / Michael G. Cornelius -- "The perfect hero for his age" : Christopher Boone and the role of logic in the boy detective narrative / Nicola Allen -- Has the world outgrown the classic boy detective? / John Finlay Kerr.
  note: edited by Michael G. Cornelius.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    geographic code: n-us---
  subject:
    topic: Detective and mystery stories, American
    topic: History and criticism
  subject:
    topic: Detectives in literature
  subject:
    topic: Boys in literature
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Stratemeyer, Edward
      name part: 1862-1930
    topic: Characters
    topic: Hardy Boys
  subject:
    topic: Hardy Boys (Fictitious characters)
  subject:
    topic: Children's stories, American
    topic: History and criticism
  subject:
    topic: Young adult fiction, American
    topic: History and criticism
  classification: PS374.D4 B69 2010
  classification: 813/.087209
  identifier: 9780786460335 (softcover : alk. paper)
  identifier: 0786460334 (softcover : alk. paper)
  identifier: 2010020982
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 100527
    record change date: 20151201153709.0
    record identifier: in00002561609