Legacies of the Rue Morgue: Science, Space, and Crime Fiction in France

Andrea Goulet

Published by University of Pennsylvania Press 2016

Legacies of the Rue Morgue

Science, Space, and Crime Fiction in France

Andrea Goulet

In the series Critical Authors and Issues

https://doi.org/10.9783/9780812292169

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About this book

Taking Edgar Allan Poe's 1841 "The Murders in the Rue Morgue" as an inaugural frame, Andrea Goulet traces the shifting representations of violence, space, and nation in French crime fiction from serial novels of the 1860s to cyberpunk fictions today.

Author / Editor information

Andrea Goulet is Professor of French at the University of Pennsylvania and author of Optiques: The Science of the Eye and the Birth of Modern French Fiction, also available from the University of Pennsylvania Press.

Reviews

"Those who love detective fiction and film—or just France—will learn here to be detectives of the city of Paris above and below ground. The ghoulish, the geological, and the sublime merge in the layers of burial grounds, literary texts, and scientific paradigms. It is a wonderful book."—Deborah Jenson, Duke University

"The astounding variety, strength, and coherence of the theoretical and conceptual frameworks—involving the cultural history of crime and detection; the history of sciences; cutting-edge urban, space, and place studies; trauma theory and psychoanalysis; a deconstructionist approach to language and textuality; a literary history renewed by a history of the print media—as well as the brilliant close readings of various embodiments of modern and postmodern crime fiction make Legacies of the Rue Morgue an absolute intellectual delight."—Catherine Nesci, University of California, Santa Barbara

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Prologue: Poe Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Chapter 1. Introduction: Mapping Murder Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	11
PART I: ARCHAEOLOGIES
Chapter 2. Quarries and Catacombs: Underground Crime in Second Empire Romans- feuilletons Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	39
Chapter 3. Skulls and Bones: Paleohistory in Leroux and Leblanc Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	80
Chapter 4. Crypts and Ghosts: Terrains of National Trauma in Japrisot and Vargas Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	118
PART II: INTERSECTIONS
Chapter 5. Street- Name Mysteries and Private/Public Violence, 1867–2001 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	159
PART III: CARTOGRAPHIES
Chapter 6. Terrains Vagues: Gaboriau and the Birth of the Cartographic Mystery Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	187
Chapter 7. Mapping the City: Malet’s Mysteries and Butor’s Bleston Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	208
Chapter 8. Zéropa- Land: Balkanization and the Schizocartographies of Dantec and Radoman Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	224
Notes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	253
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	279
Acknowledgments Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	293

Language: English
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Audience: College/higher education;
Pages
- Main content: 304
Illustrations
- Other: 10 illus.
Keywords: Literature; Cultural Studies

eBook

Published: October 27, 2015
ISBN: 9780812292169