Sim, Stuart
Justice and Revenge in Contemporary American Crime Fiction
Table of contents
1. Introduction: The Anti-Detective Figure & the ‘New America’
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2. James Ellroy:
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3. James Lee Burke: Dave Robicheaux — Keeping Evil at Bay
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4. Walter Mosley: Easy Rawlins & the African American Experience
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5. Sara Paretsky: The Female Private Investigator versus Patriarchy
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6. George Pelecanos: Nick Stefanos — The Private Investigator & ‘Absolute Justice’
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7. Conclusion: Crime Fiction, Revenge & Moral Decline
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Keywords: Literature, Twentieth-Century Literature, Fiction, North American Literature, Literary History
- Author(s)
- Sim, Stuart
- Publisher
- Springer
- Publication year
- 2015
- Language
- en
- Edition
- 1
- Imprint
- Palgrave Macmillan UK - London
- Page amount
- 133 pages
- Category
- Litterary Studies
- Format
- Ebook
- eISBN (PDF)
- 9781137469663
- Printed ISBN
- 978-1-349-50056-7
