Legacies of the Rue Morgue : science, space, and crime fiction in France /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Goulet, Andrea (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2016]
Series:	Critical authors & issues.
Subjects:	Detective and mystery stories, French > History and criticism. French fiction > 19th century > History and criticism. French fiction > 20th century > History and criticism. French fiction > 21st century > History and criticism. Science in literature. Space and time in literature. Poe, Edgar Allan, > 1809-1849 > Influence. Poe, Edgar Allan, > 1809-1849. Detective and mystery stories, French. French fiction. Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.) 1800 - 2099 Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Table of Contents:

Prologue : Poe 1
Introduction : Mapping murder
Archaeologies. Quarries and catacombs : underground crime in Second Empire Romans-feuilletons
Skulls and bones : paleohistory in Leroux and Leblanc
Crypts and ghosts : terrains of national trauma in Japrisot and Vargas
Intersections. Street-name mysteries and private/public violence, 1867-2001
Cartographies. Terrains vagues : Gaboriau and the birth of the cartographic mystery
Mapping the city : Malet's mysteries and Butor's Bleston
Zéropa-land : Balkanization and the schizocartographies of Dantec and Radoman.