The detective's companion in crime fiction : a study in sidekicks /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Cham :
Palgrave Macmillan,
[2021]
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| Series: | Crime files series.
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Table of Contents:
- 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 Collinss 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 Poirots Stooges and Foils / J.C. Bernthal
- 7. Finding the Female Sidekick in the Lord Peter Wimsey Novels / Sally Beresford-Sheridan
- 8. Pretty, but not so pretty : Marlowes Female Sidekicks and the Domestication of Hard-boiled Detective Fiction / Alexander N. Howe
- 9. The Anti-Sidekick: Raymond Mouse Alexander, Double Consciousness and the Subversion of the Sidekick in Walter Mosleys 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 forand the worst enemy you could ever imagine : Frank Millers All Star Batman & Robin, the Boy Wonder and the Problem of the Boy Sidekick in the Twenty-First-Century Superhero Narrative / Lucy Andrew
- 12. Worlds long on academics, Morse, but woeful short of good detectives : Lewis, Hathaway, and Endeavour; The Changing Roles of Colin Dexters Sidekicks / David Bishop
- 13. Mooncakes and Squashed Fly Biscuits : Otherness in the Wells and Wong series / Alice Nuttall
- 14. Sherlocks Legacy: The Case of the Extraordinary Sidekick / Dominique Gracia.