Economic Investigations in Twentieth-Century Detective Fiction: Expenditure, Labor, Value

ISBN-13: 9780367881009 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 216 str.

Yan Zi-Ling

Opis

In his study of Golden Age and hard-boiled detective fiction, Yan Zi-Ling argues that these two subgenres can be distinguished not only by theme and style, but by the way they structure knowledge, value, and productive labour. He analyzes texts by Arthur Conan Doyle, Agatha Christie, Dashiell Hammett, Dorothy Sayers and Mickey Spillane, among other

Spis treści

Ideology critique and economics in detective fiction.  Conservationism, enclosure, and totalitarianism.  Expenditure and discursive recuperation.  Clue, value, and counterfeit. Detective labor.  Hard-boiled gift-labor and the aneconomic gift.  Conclusion: the theatrical economy.  Works cited.

O autorze

Yan Zi-Ling is an associate professor at National University of Tainan, Taiwan.