{"product_id":"animals-in-detective-fiction-9783031092404","title":"Animals in Detective Fiction","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis 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 \u003ci\u003eontologies\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eethics\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003epolitics\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eforms\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eAnimals in Detective Fiction\u003c\/i\u003e provides a compelling and nuanced analysis of the central role creatures play in this enduringly popular and continually morphing literary form.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“A corrective volume that successfully sets the record straight, Animals and Detective Fiction is the starting point for further literary scholarship on genre fiction and animal studies.”  (Dominic O’Key, The Year’s Work in Critical and Cultural Theory, May 8, 2023)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOrigins and Evolutions: The Brutal History of Detective Fiction.\u003cp\u003eOntologies.\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eTigers, Criminals, Rogues: Animality in Dickens’ Detective Fiction.\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eQuantum Entanglements in Arthur Conan Doyle’s \u003ci\u003eThe Hound of the Baskervilles.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eWolverines, Werewolves and Demon Dogs: Animality, Criminality and Classification in James Ellroy’s \u003ci\u003eL.A. Quartet\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e  Ethics.\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eThe Psittacine Witness: Parrot Talk and Animal Ethics in Earl Derr Biggers’ \u003ci\u003eThe Chinese Parrot \u003c\/i\u003eand Earl Stanley Gardner’s \u003ci\u003eThe Case of the Perjured Parrot.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eEcology, Capability and Companion Species: Conflicting Ethics in Nevada Barr’s \u003ci\u003eBlood Lure\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eLaboratory Tech-Noir: Genre, Narrative Form, and the Literary Model Organism in Jay Hosking’s \u003ci\u003eThree Years with the Rat.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eReptiles, Buddhism, and Detection in John Burdett’s \u003ci\u003eBangkok 8\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003ePolitics.\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eAnimals, Biopolitics, and Sensation Fiction: M. E. Braddon’s \u003ci\u003eLady Audley’s Secret.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e“The Motto of the Mollusc”: Patricia Highsmith and the Semiotics of Snails.\u003c\/p\u003e  “Before the white man came, when animals still talked”: Colonial Creatures in Sherman Alexie’s \u003ci\u003eIndian Killer \u003c\/i\u003eand Adrian C. Louis’s \u003ci\u003eSkins\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e  Forms.\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eAping the Classics: Terry Pratchett’s Satirical Animals and Detective Fiction.\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eAnimal Image and Human Logos in Graphic Detective Fiction.\u003c\/p\u003e  “As easy to spot as a kangaroo in a dinner jacket”: Animetaphor in Raymond Chandler and Jonathan Lethem.","brand":"Springer International Publishing AG","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53516334399831,"sku":"9783031092404","price":104.49,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/animals-in-detective-fiction-9783031092404","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}