Outlander and Lord John as crime fiction : essays on the novels, stories and TV series /

"Fans across the globe are familiar with Diana Gabaldon's bestselling Outlander series and the Starz television series that adapts it. Combining science fiction time travel and historical romance, the Outlanderuniverse has captivated millions with its detail and complexity. However, few re...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors:	MacDonald, Erin E. (Editor)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Jefferson, North Carolina : McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, [2025]
Subjects:	Gabaldon, Diana. > Outlander novels. Gabaldon, Diana. > Lord John Grey series. Gabaldon, Diana > Criticism and interpretation. Outlander (Television program) Detective and mystery stories, American > History and criticism. Television crime shows > United States > History and criticism. Émissions criminelles télévisées > États-Unis > Histoire et critique.

Table of Contents:

Introduction : Outlander as crime fiction? / Erin E. Macdonald
The numinous corrupted : supernatural framings of crime in Diana Gabaldon's Lord John stories compared to Outlander / Kari Sawden
Epistemophilia and landscapes : Claire Randall as metaphysical and literal sleuth in Outlander / Katrina Younes
Fixing those uppity witches : witchcraft and healing as crimes of femininity in Outlander / Racheal Harris
"A fugitive green" : outsiders at play with convention / Roy Geiger
Living a crime : double consciousness follows Lord John as a closeted detective / Valerie Estelle Frankel
Lord John and the age of reason : Gabaldon's atypical rationalist detective / Erin E. Macdonald
The personal and political motivations for crime and crime fighting in the Lord John series / Erin E. Macdonald
Crime solving "gays" : anti-stereotypical and powerful portrayals of queer sexualities in the crime fiction of Victor J. Banis and Diana Gabaldon / Süleyman Bölükbaş
Disguising the gay hero as he combats crimes of the British Empire : slavery and colonialism in the Lord John series / Lisa Elwood-Farber
Yi tien cho : chinese or criminal? Race and criminality in Diana Gabaldon's voyager / Justine Trinh
Crime, trauma, and the ethics of Jamie Fraser / Racheal Harris
Open wounds : decentering the televisual rape/recovery crime narrative in Outlander / Jason Davids Scott
When murder isn't a crime : exploring vigilante justice in the Outlander television series / Jaclyn Smith-Wilson
"As you've never seen it before" : Diana Gabaldon, Hoang Nguyen, and the graphic crime novel / Suzanne Manizza Roszak.