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Mystery Fiction and Modern Life Studies in Popular Culture (Jackson, Miss.)
author
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Kelly, R. Gordon.
publisher
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University Press of Mississippi
isbn10 | asin
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157806032X
print isbn13
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9781578060320
ebook isbn13
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9780585031880
language
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English
subject
Detective and mystery stories, American--History and criticism, Detective and mystery stories, English--History and criticism, Literature and society--United States--History--20th century, Literature and society--Great Britain--History--20th century, Amer
publication date
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1998
lcc
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PS374.D4K45 1998eb
ddc
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813/.087209
subject
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Detective and mystery stories, American--History and criticism, Detective and mystery stories, English--History and criticism, Literature and society--United States--History--20th century, Literature and society--Great Britain--History--20th century, Amer
Studies in Popular Culture M. Thomas Inge, General Editor
Mystery Fiction and Modern Life
R. Gordon Kelly
University Press of Mississippi Jackson
Copyright 1998 by University Press of Mississippi All rights reserved Manufactured in the United States of America 01 00 99 98 4 3 2 1 The paper in this book meets the guidelines for permanence and durability of the Committee on Production Guidelines for Book Longevity of the Council on Library Resources.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Kelly, R. Gordon. Mystery fiction and modern life / R. Gordon Kelly. p. cm.(Studies in popular culture) Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 1-57806-005-2 (alk. paper).ISBN 1-57806-032-X (pbk.: alk. paper) 1. Detective and mystery stories, AmericanHistory and criticism. 2. Detective and mystery stories, EnglishHistory and criticism. 3. Literature and societyUnited StatesHistory 20th century. 4. Literature and societyGreat BritainHistory 20th century. 5. American fiction20th centuryHistory and criticism. 6. English fiction20th centuryHistory and criticism. 7. Crime in literature. I. Title. II. Series: Studies in popular culture (Jackson, Miss.) PS374.D4K45 1998 813'.087209dc21
97-21530 CIP
British Library Cataloging-in-Publication data available
For JEL and the children
There are at least three points where chaosa tumult of events which lack not interpretation but interpretabilitythreatens to break in upon man: at the limits of his analytic capacities, at the limits of his powers of endurance, and at the limits of his moral insight. Bafflement, suffering, and a sense of intractable ethical paradox are all, if they become intense enough or are sustained long enough, radical challenges to the proposition that life is comprehensible and that we can, by taking thought, orient ourselves effectively within it.
Clifford Geertz, "Religion as a Cultural System"
Page vii
Contents
Acknowledgments
ix
Introduction
xi
1.
Modernity as Context
1
2.
Knowing Others Better (than They Know You)
27
3.
Detectives Reading the Other
59
4.
Tradecraft: The Systematization and Professionalization of Duplicity
83
5.
Costs and Benefits
109
6.
Doing Things with Mystery Fiction
136
7.
Some Readers Reading
162
Conclusion
189
Notes
199
References
205
Index
217
Page ix
Acknowledgments
The origins of this book can be traced to a wonderfully stimulating course in popular formula fiction taught by John Cawelti one summer when I was a graduate student at the University of Iowa. It is a pleasure to acknowledge his influence as well as that of Stow Persons and Alexander Kern, with whom I also studied at Iowa. At the University of Pennsylvania, Murray G. Murphey supported my interests in popular fiction in the best possible wayby allowing me to create and teach courses on detective fiction and society.
Without institutional support from the University of Maryland, College Park, this work could not have been completed. A grant from the Research Center for the Arts and Humanities provided a semester's leave from administrative responsibilities to work on a draft. Sadly, the Research Center was one of the first casualties of budget cuts in 1990, thus depriving others of the opportunity to devote their full time to research and writing while still drawing their salary. Sabbatical leave in the spring of 1995 enabled me to complete the manuscript; I am grateful to Robert Griffith, the former dean of the College of Arts and Humanities, for approving that leave. For her support and encouragement, I am also indebted to my former colleague, Hasia Diner. My students over the years have usefully questioned and challenged my ideas. I am especially appreciative of those who read and commented on all or part of the manuscript: David Weinstein, Jenny Thompson, Jan Blodgett, Shelby Shapiro, Greg Wahl, and Tom Frank. Valerle Brown and Kathleen Waters provided invaluable secretarial assistance.
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