Editors:
- Explores the intersection of detective fiction and animal studies
- Studies classic and contemporary detective fiction as well as other genres
- Contributes to American studies, Victorian studies, and ecocriticism
Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in Animals and Literature (PSAAL)
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Table of contents (14 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Ethics
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Front Matter
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Politics
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
About this book
This book explores the vast array of animals that populate detective fiction. If the genre begins, as is widely supposed, with Edgar Allan Poe’s “Murders in the Rue Morgue” (1841), then detective fiction’s very first culprit is an animal. Animals, moreover, consistently appear as victims, clues, and companions, while the abstract conception of animality is closely tied to the idea of criminality. Although it is often described as an essentially conservative form, detective fiction can unsettle the binary of human and animal to intersect with developing concerns in animal studies: animal agency, the ethical complexities of human/animal interaction, the politics and literary aesthetics of violence, and animal metaphor. Gathering its 14 essays into sections on ontologies, ethics, politics, and forms, Animals in Detective Fiction provides a compelling and nuanced analysis of the central role creatures play in this enduringly popular and continually morphing literary form.
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Editors and Affiliations
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University of Lincoln, Lincoln, UK
Ruth Hawthorn
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University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK
John Miller
About the editors
Ruth Hawthorn is Senior Lecturer in American Literature at the University of Lincoln. She is currently completing a monograph on American detective fiction for the BAAS Paperbacks series with Edinburgh University Press. Her research interests include crime fiction, the literature of LA, and ecocriticism.
John Miller is Senior Lecturer in Nineteenth-Century Literature at the University of Sheffield, President of ASLE-UKI (Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment, UK and Ireland), and co-editor of Palgrave Studies in Animals in Literature. His books include Empire and the Animal Body (Anthem, 2014) and The Heart of the Forest (British Library Publishing, 2022).
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Animals in Detective Fiction
Editors: Ruth Hawthorn, John Miller
Series Title: Palgrave Studies in Animals and Literature
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-09241-1
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2022
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-09240-4Published: 07 December 2022
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-09243-5Published: 07 December 2023
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-09241-1Published: 06 December 2022
Series ISSN: 2634-6338
Series E-ISSN: 2634-6346
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 311
Number of Illustrations: 1 illustrations in colour
Topics: Literature, general, Fiction, Environmental Communication, Veterinary Medicine/Veterinary Science