The detective's companion in crime fiction: a study in sidekicks
by Andrew, Lucy Saunders, Samuel
This book aims to establish the position of the sidekick character in the crime and detective fiction literary genres. It re-evaluates the traditional view that the sidekick character in these genres is often overlooked as having a small, generic or singular roleeither to act as the foil to the detective in order to accentuate their own abilities at solving crimes, or else to simply tell the story to the reader. Instead, essays in the collection explore the representations and functions of the …
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- Full title :The detective's companion in crime fiction : a study in sidekicks / Lucy Andrew, Samuel Saunders, editors.
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This book aims to establish the position of the sidekick character in the crime and detective fiction literary genres. It re-evaluates the traditional view that the sidekick character in these genres is often overlooked as having a small, generic or singular roleeither to act as the foil to the detective in order to accentuate their own abilities at solving crimes, or else to simply tell the story to the reader. Instead, essays in the collection explore the representations and functions of the detectives sidekick across a range of forms and subgenres of crime fiction. By incorporating forms such as childrens detective fiction, comics and graphic novels and film and television alongside the more traditional fare of novels and short stories, this book aims to break down the boundaries that sometimes exist between these forms, using the sidekick as a defining thread to link them together into a wider conceptual argument that covers a broad range of crime narratives.
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- Publication Date:2021.
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Palgrave Macmillan
- Place of Publication:Cham
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:2021.
The Physical Object
- Description:1 online resource
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9783030749897, 3030749894
- DOI:10.1007/978-3-030-74989-7
- oclc:on1261880030
- LC Classification:PN3448.D4
- Dewey Decimal:809.3872
Table of Contents
1. Introduction: Step Forward, Sidekicks, Samuel Saunders and Lucy Andrew -- 2. One Fixed Point in a Changing Age : Reframing the Sidekick, Michelle D. Miranda -- 3. Passed by unnoticed : Surveillance and the Street Urchin in Wilkie Collinss The Moonstone, Oriah Amit -- 4. always with the Inspector : The Reader as Sidekick in Mid-Victorian Detective Literature, 1845-1887, Samuel Saunders -- 5. You have a grand gift of silence, Watson : Re-Inventing Agency in Twenty-First-Century Adaptations of Dr Watson, Annette Wren -- 6. A Look of Doglike Devotion : Hercule Poirots Stooges and Foils, J.C. Bernthal -- 7. Finding the Female Sidekick in the Lord Peter Wimsey Novels, Sally Bernadette Beresford-Sheridan -- 8. Pretty, but not so pretty : Marlowes Female Sidekicks and the Domestication of Hard-boiled Detective Fiction, Alexander Howe -- 9. The Anti-Sidekick: Raymond Mouse Alexander, Double Consciousness and the Subversion of the Sidekick in Walter Mosleys Easy Rawlins Mysteries, Nathan Ashman -- 10. 72 Votes: Theorizing the Scapegoat Sidekick in Batman: A Death in the Family, Kwasu Tembo -- 11. Im gonna be the best friend you could ever hope forand the worst enemy you could ever imagin…
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