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Title:

Marcia Muller and the female private eye : essays on the novels that defined a subgenre / edited by Alexander N. Howe and Christine A. Jackson.

Publisher:

McFarland & Co.,

Copyright Date:

c2008

Description:

vi, 197 p. ; 23 cm.

Subject:

Muller, Marcia--Characters.
McCone, Sharon (Fictitious character)
Private investigators in literature
Women detectives in literature
Detective and mystery stories, American--History and criticism.

Other Authors:

Howe, Alexander N., 1973-
Jackson, Christine A., 1951-

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Changing the world, one detective at a time : the feminist ethos of Marcia Muller and Sharon McCone / Winter S. Elliott -- Crime, punishment, and some change in the McCone series / Chin-jau Chyan -- Imagining the margins : Muller's explorations of race / Maureen T. Reddy -- Gender and genre stretching in the non-McCone novels / Pamela E. Bedore -- Taking Edwin to lunch : developing the female hard-boiled detective in the early McCone novels / Patricia P. Buckler -- Sharon McCone : from PI to anti-terrorist / Priscilla L. Walton -- Searching for the past : nostalgia in the McCone novels / Kelly C. Connelly -- The journey of Sharon McCone, private investigator / Patricia L. Maida -- Anxious authorship : the detective fiction of Marcia Muller and Gertrude Stein / Jessica V. Datema -- The lost child : haunting motif in the McCone novels / Harriette C. Buchanan -- Muller earth : mythic topography in the Soledad County trilogy / Christine A. Jackson -- The deafening silence of the McCone series / Alexander N. Howe -- Conclusion : Marcia Muller in the American tradition : still breaching our insecurities / Christine A. Jackson.

ISBN:

9780786438259 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0786438258 (pbk. : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)213775585

LCCN:

2008024339

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)