Isn't justice always unfair?
the detective in southern literature
by J. Kenneth Van Dover, John F. Jebb, and K. K. Van Dover
Isn't Justice Always Unfair? explores the uncommonly long and uncommonly rich relationship between the fictional detective and his or her South. It begins with the New Orleans expatriate, Legrand, uncovering Captain Kidd's treasure on an island off Charleston, South Carolina; it covers the satires and parodies of Mark Twain and the polished stories of Melville Davisson Post and Irvin S.
Cobb; and it concludes with surveys of the many good and excellent writers who are using the form of the detective story to compose inquiries into the character of life in the South today. At the center of Isn't Justice Always Unfair? lies an analysis of a most remarkable phenomenon: William Faulkner's exploitation of the genre as an avenue into his postage stamp of Southern experience, Yoknapatawpha County.
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American Detective and mystery stories, American literature, Detective and mystery stories, American, History and criticism, In literature, Influence, General & Literary Fiction, Novels, other prose & writers, Literature - Classics / Criticism, American Novel And Short Story, Mystery And Suspense Fiction, English, Literary Criticism, USA, General, Mystery & Detective Fiction, Poe, Edgar Allan, 1809-1849, Poe, Edgar Allan,, Southern States, Detective and mystery stories,People
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Isn't justice always unfair?: the detective in southern literature
1996, Bowling Green State University Popular Press
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