This collection of essays focuses its critical sights on the figure of the girl sleuth, made famous by Nancy Drew but also characterized by other famous detectives like Cherry Ames, Trixie Belden, Linda Carlton, and even in contemporary media by Veronica Mars and Hermione Granger of the "Harry Potter" series (all of whom are represented in the ...
This book is the winner of the Emily Toth Award. This edition adds sixty new female private eyes to the roster and includes an afterword that assesses the current state of the genre's new and old novels.
In the early chapters of this book, the authors examine the crime novels of Wilkie Collins, George R. Sims, Grant Allen, and Anna Katherine Green, and discover the splendid and daunting lady detective Miss Van Snoop. Later on, they explore the period in this century in which women writers made the detective story their own - Christie, Sayers, ...
Basing their analysis on a bibliography of more than 2280 books featuring 522 characters in American mystery fiction, the authors look at how the fictional female detective has changed over 100 years to an activist dealing with contemporary social problems.
Examines how women detectives are portrayed in film, in literature and on TV. This book includes chapters that examine the portrayal of female investigators in each of these four genres: the Gothic novel, the lesbian detective novel, television, and film.
In 1977, Marcia Muller invaded the all-male domain of detective literature and within in a decade was established as the mother of the contemporary female hardboiled private eye. She is now the author of four detective series, including the critically acclaimed "Sharon McCone" series, which totals twenty-five titles to date.The objective of this ...
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