The Web of Iniquity

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ISBN: 9780822322719 | 0822322714
Cover: Paperback
Copyright: 2/1/1999

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""The Web of Iniquity" presents strikingly original research on an intriguing subject: the origins of the American detective novel in mid-nineteenth-century domestic fiction. Nickerson has hit upon a rich and absorbing subject. No other book has treated this area of women's literary history in America."--Gillian Brown, author of "Domestic Individualism: Imagining Self in Nineteenth-Century America"

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Preface
Acknowledgments
The Advent of Detective Fiction and the Postbellum Period
"To Trace a Lie, to Discover a Disguisse": Genres of Crime and Secrecy
"The Eye of Suspicion": The Erotics of Detection in The Dead Letter
The Loop of Surveillance in The Figure Eight and Hagar's Daughter
Anna Katharine Green and the Gilded Age
"A Woman with a Secret": Knowing and Telling in The Leavenworth Case
"A Woman's Hand": Good Works and the Woman Detective
Mary Roberts Rinehart and the Modern Era
"No Place for a Spinster": The Architecture of Retrospection in The Circular Staircase
"I suppose They Stood It as Long as They Could": Mothers, Daughters, and Axe Murder in The Album
Afterword
Notes
Selected Bibliography
Index
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The Web of Iniquity

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