Narratives of enclosure in detective fiction : the locked room mystery /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Cook, Michael, 1946-
Corporate Author:	ebrary, Inc
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire [England] ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2011.
Series:	Crime files series.
Subjects:	Detective and mystery stories > History and criticism. Rooms in literature. Setting (Literature) Space in literature. Place (Philosophy) in literature. Crime in literature. Electronic books.
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book

Table of Contents:

Preface
Edgar Allan Poe and the detective story narrative
The locked compartment: Charles Dickens's 'The signalman' and enclosure in The railway mystery story
The body in the library: reading the locked room in Anna Katherine Green's The filigree ball
G. K. Chesterton's enclosure of orthodoxy in 'The wrong shape'
The hollow text: illusion as theme in John Dickson Carr's The hollow man
Jorge Luis Borges and the labyrinth of detection
The story is the writer himself: Paul Auster's locked room in City of glass
The narrative of enclosure.