Cambridge University Press 978-1-107-13101-9 — A History of American Crime Fiction Edited by Chris Raczkowski Index More Information 353 Index abolitionist literature see also slave narratives women writers, 110 , 118 – 21 Address of Abraham Johnstone, A Black Alcott, Louisa May, 110 Man … To the People of Color , 31 Alfau, Felipe, 223 – 4 nativist rhetoric, 64 Alger, Horatio, 103 , 107 slave narratives and, 263 Ames, Levi, 21 – 2 Uncle Tom’s Cabin (Stowe), 58 , 63 antebellum crime fi ction see also city mystery abolitionists see also slavery novels ; urban crime fi ction accusations of slave stealing, 77 immigrants’ living conditions, 66 – 7 American Anti- Slavery Society (AASS), 72 , racial ambivalence of, 63 73 , 77 – 8 , 80 as social critique, 57 anti- slavery sentiments in Romanticism, 62 – 3 anthropometry, 141 incrimination of, 77 – 8 Appel, Benjamin, 184 slave testimonies at alternative Arendt, Hannah, 195 , 196 tribunals, 79 – 81 Auden, W. H. Acker, Kathy, 228 on the detective genre, 158 , 176 African- American detective fi ction see also “ Th e Guilty Vicarage”, 159 , 168 , 341 Himes, Chester New Year Letter , 163 – 5 absurd violence and representations of Auster, Paul, 94 , 229 racism, 269 authority, institutionalized Black Chicago Renaissance, 267 – 8 city mystery novels as challenge to, 51 – 2 black identity and ties with Africa, 265 – 6 individual autonomy vs. social authority in Th e Black Sleuth (Bruce), 265 – 6 gallows genre, 21 – 2 Th e Conjure Man Dies (Fisher), 266 – 7 liberal authority values in hard- boiled fi ction, contemporary, 271 – 2 182 , 237 – 8 critiques of Jim Crow era, 264 – 5 Pinkerton’s relationship with, 100 – 1 during the Harlem Renaissance, 266 – 7 autobiographies, criminal female novelists and detectives, 272 – 4 A Brief Narrative of the Life and Confession of Hagar’s Daughter (Hopkins), 264 – 5 Barnett Davenport , 35 Harlem Domestics (Himes), 186 – 8 , 268 – 9 A Narrative of the Life of William Beadle , 35 Holloway House school, 269 – 70 female malefactors, 32 – 4 Let Th at Be the Reason (Stringer), 274 of gallows genre, 21 – 2 links with slave narratives, 78 , 81 , 263 and the gothic, 34 – 6 literary criticism, 349 infl uence on novels of seduction, 33 – 4 “Mama” series (DeLoach), 272 – 3 Life and Confession of Johnson Green , 3 0 – 2 Native Son (Wright), 267 – 8 Th e Memoirs of Steven Burroughs , 2 9 – 3 0 Pimp: Th e Story of My Life (Beck), 270 postmodernist, 270 – 1 Bailey, Frankie Y., 349 street literature novels, 273 – 4 Barnard, Philip, 36 African Americans Beck, Robert “Iceberg Slim”, 270 Charlotte Justice (detective), 240 , 241 Belsey, Catherine, 128 Double- Victory strategy, 186 – 8 Benjamin, Walter, 160 353 © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-1-107-13101-9 — A History of American Crime Fiction Edited by Chris Raczkowski Index More Information 354 354 Index Berry, Jedediah, 232 Chintz, David, 154 Bester, Alfred, 224 – 5 Choi, Susan, 231 Betz, Phyllis M., 349 Christie, Agatha, 89 , 113 , 131 , 167 Biggers, Earl Derr, 175 – 6 Citizenfour , 306 – 9 Birchfi eld, D. L., 259 city mystery novels see also antebellum crime black minstrelsy, 63 fi ction ; urban crime fiction Bloch, Robert, 215 – 16 African- American characters, 63 – 4 Borges, Jorge Luis anti- Catholicism, 64 infl uences of Poe, 91 – 2 authors of, 49 – 50 “La muerte y la brujula”, 91 – 2 , 223 as challenge to moral authorities, 51 – 2 writing career, 91 City Crimes or Life in New York and Boston Browne, Ray B., 349 (Th ompson), 50 – 1 , 52 , 53 – 4 , 60 , 64 Bruce, John Edward, 265 – 6 class confl ict in, 52 – 3 , 57 , 58 – 60 , 62 Buntline, Ned criminality in, 52 Th e Mysteries and Miseries of New York , 50 , depictions of women, 53 – 4 51 , 60 , 139 gothic elements to, 50 – 1 sympathies for the working man, 52 , 56 industrial capitalism critiques, 44 , 57 , 58 – 9 , Burroughs, William S., 94 60 , 63 – 4 , 66 Th e Knights of the Seal (Duganne), 60 , 64 Cain, James M. Les Mysterès de Paris (Sue), 44 Double Indemnity , 193 , 195 , 202 , 210 – 11 , 314 , 316 Th e Mysteries and Miseries of New York Ossessione (fi lm), 186 (Buntline), 50 , 51 , 60 , 139 Th e Postman Always Rings Twice , 153 , 184 , 185 , nativist rhetoric in, 64 , 65 , 66 – 7 186 , 316 pornographic depictions, 53 writing style, 185 Quaker City: or, the Monks of Monk Hall Calweti, John, 343 (Lippard), 44 , 52 , 53 , 58 – 60 , 64 cant, 9 race in, 57 , 63 – 4 carceral gothic, 38 – 9 as secret histories, 44 Carey, John, 168 sensationalism of, 51 Carr, John Dickson, 168 , 171 , 173 – 4 urbanization and, 44 – 6 Carretta, Vincent, 69 – 70 , 71 women in, 53 – 4 Chabon, Michael, 230 class Chabrol, Claude, 317 and the Molly Maguire case, 101 Chandler, Raymond class confl ict in city mysteries, 52 – 3 , 57 , Th e Big Sleep , 163 , 192 – 3 , 211 – 12 58 – 60 , 62 Farewell, My Lovely , 316 class confl ict in Th e House of the Seven Gables fi lm adaptations, 1970s, 320 (Hawthorne), 60 – 2 Fredric Jameson’s essays on, 346 – 7 class hierarchies, 140 Th e Long Goodbye , 238 cross- racial sympathies, 63 – 5 “ Th e Simple Art of Murder”, 89 – 90 , 174 , 176 , inheritance and marriage plots, 174 – 5 182 – 3 , 341 – 2 middle- class hypocrisies, 52 – 3 , 103 , 123 – 4 Chang, Henry middle- class private rooms as public crime exhaustion in, 247 scenes, 160 identity as trauma, 241 and race in Golden Age fi ction, 175 – 6 identity knowledge, 240 surveillance to counter class- based social institutional corruption, 242 threats, 137 as neoliberal texts, 245 – 6 , 247 working- class populism, 180 – 2 the resisting individual, 242 – 3 cliff hangers, 28 urban landscape knowledge, 239 Cohen, Daniel, 34 Chartier, Jean- Pierre, 315 – 16 Collins, Wilkie, 124 , 126 , 155 – 6 Chatman, Seymour, 342 – 3 Comstock, Anthony, 99 Chesnutt, Charles, 144 Conan Doyle, Arthur Chesterton, G. K. admiration for Anna Katharine Green, 126 “A Defense of Detective Stories”, 160 chain of inheritance with Poe/ Dupin, 85 – 6 “ Th e Blue Cross”, 88 – 9 dual nature of Holmes, 86 – 7 © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-1-107-13101-9 — A History of American Crime Fiction Edited by Chris Raczkowski Index More Information 355 Index 355 femme fatale detective (“A Scandal in defi ning features of, 83 , 102 – 3 Bohemia”), 125 , 127 – 9 , 130 – 1 “ Th e Murders in the Rue Morgue” as “ Th e Sign of Four”, 126 , 127 foundation for, 83 – 4 A Study in Scarlet , 250 women writers, 110 Watsonian amanuensis, 170 detectives see also Pinkerton National Detective writing schedule, 326 Agency ; women detectives Coulthard, Glen, 251 detective/ criminal similarities, 205 – 6 , 212 Crane, Stephen, 139 – 40 physical and mental condition of, 231 – 2 crime fi ction Dick, Philip K., 93 – 4 , 229 and canonical literature, 1 – 2 Dietrich, Marlene, 201 – 2 art of, 1 , 36 , 84 dime novels eighteenth- century characteristics of, 28 and genre fi ction, 99 in relation to American literary history, 2 – 4 , 9 mass readership, 180 – 1 crime fi ction criticism Molly Maguire Case, 101 – 2 crime fi ction in relation to American literary Pinkerton Agency, 97 – 8 , 105 – 7 history, 2 – 3 , 9 portrayals of detectives, 100 crime fi ction within canonical literature, 1 Ragged Dick novels (Alger), 103 , 107 high culture/ low culture wars, 340 – 2 vigilantism in, 145 ideological criticism, 346 – 7 women detectives in, 124 – 5 noir story, 350 domestic detective fi ction see also Green, Anna overview of, 339 – 40 Katharine pas de deux concept, 3 Th e Dead Letter (Victor), 110 , 125 poststructuralist and postmodernism, 347 – 8 genre of, 125 psychoanalysis, 343 – 6 “In a Cellar” (Spoff ord), 116 – 18 revisionist criticism, 348 – 50 scholarly criticism of, 110 – 11 structuralist criticism, 342 – 3 the transnational in the domestic criminal anthropology, 140 – 2 sphere, 115 – 21 criminality women’s perspectives and, 123 – 4 anthropometry, 141 Douglass, Frederick, 73 , 80 , 263 – 4 in city mystery novels, 52 Downing, Todd female criminality as abomination, 197 Th e Case of the Unconquered Sisters , 254 identifi cation of and realism, 147 Murder on the Tropic , 254 – 6 public interest in the narrative of, 19 – 22 , 28 – 9 Murder on Tour , 254 and race, 30 – 2 overview of, 251 – 2 criminology, 146 – 7 settler colonial crime in, 251 – 2 cultural determinism, 146 Dreiser, Th eodore, 145 – 7 cyberpunk, 229 – 30 Duganne, Augustine anti- slavery sentiments, 63 Daly, Carroll John Th e Knights of the Seal , 60 , 64 “Knights of the Open Palm”, 181 – 2 treatment of crime, 56 liberal autonomy values, 182 Dunbar, Paul Laurence, 144 – 5 De Goede, Marieke, 303 , 305 De Quincey, Th omas, 84 E ffi nger, George Alec, 229 death see also execution sermons ; gallows genre Eliot, T. S. in early New England theology, 13 codifi cation of detective rules, 154 , 169 entertaining deaths in gallows genre, 22 – 4 devotion to detective fi ction, 154 , 176 and femme fatales , 197 on melodrama, 155 – 6 , 158 – 9 as fulfi llment/ spiritual rebirth, 16 – 17 Th e Waste Land , 154 – 5 DeLillo, Don, 230 – 1 “Wilkie Collins and Dickens”, 155 – 6 DeLoach, Nora, 272 – 3 Ellroy, James, 198 DeLombard, Jeannine, 32 Enlightenment, 21 , 35 , 36 Denning, Michael, 62 , 98 , 101 , 102 , 183 , 184 Equiano, Olaudah Derrida, Jacques, 347 – 8 charges of literary fraud, 70 – 1 detective genre Th e Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah “20 Rules for Writing Detective Stories”, 89 Equiano , 69 , 70 , 74 © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University