障害者の探偵 The Disabled Detective : Sleuthing Disability in Contemporary Crime Fiction

Mintz, Susannah B.

Bloomsbury Academic（2021/02発売）

• 製本 Paperback:紙装版/ペーパーバック版／ページ数 224 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9781350215436
• DDC分類 823.087209

Full Description

The first book of its kind, The Disabled Detective explores representations of disability in crime fiction, from the earliest days of the genre to contemporary television drama. Susannah B. Mintz examines detective heroes with such conditions as blindness, deafness, paralysis, Asperger's, obsessive compulsive disorder, addiction, war trauma and many other impairments. Examining a wide range of texts, from Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes stories and the works of Agatha Christie to contemporary crime writers such as Jeffrey Deaver and Michael Collins and television dramas such as Monk, this book highlights how often characters with disabilities have been the heroes of crime fiction and how rarely this has been discussed in contemporary criticism.

Contents

1. introduction: sleuthing disability 1
2. seer detectives 29
3. deafness and the penetrating detective 70
4. the crip sleuths 111
5. the missing arm of the law 151
6. detection and the mind's private eye 191
7. epilogue 231
works cited 234