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Critical Essays on English and Bengali Detective Fiction brings together three strains of detective fiction: British, American, and Bengal. The import of detective fiction from Britain has influenced generations of writers of Bengali detective fiction. In this anthology of critical essays by scholars on detective fiction, we have divided the contents into three groups. First, there are essays on classic British detective fiction, with essays on Charles Dickens, Wilkie Collins, Arthur Conan Doyle, Agatha Christie, P.D.James, Kate Atkinson, and Margery Allingham. The second section is on American hard-boiled fiction with essays on Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler. The third section is on Bengali detective fiction with essays on Hemendra Kumar Roy, Saradindu Bandyopadhay and Satyajit Ray. Together, these essays bring three strains of detective fiction into conversation to show the gradual postcolonial attempt of Bengali detective fiction to outgrow colonial influences and create an original and organic tradition of regional and vernacular detective fiction.
Contents
Foreword by Phil Fitzsimmons
Acknowledgements
Introduction, Debayan Deb Barman
Part 1: BRITISH DETECTIVE FICTION
Chapter 1: From Secrecy to Knowledge: Detection and Literary Detectives in Dickens, Kyamalia Bairagya
Chapter 2: Heroine as Detective: Wilkie Collins's The Dead Secret, Madhumita Biswas
Chapter 3: Women as Victims of Abuse in Crime Fiction: Representations of Misogyny in Arthur Conan Doyle's The Hound of the Baskervilles and A Study in Scarlet, Karabi Barman
Chapter 4: Detection and Drawings: Sidney Paget's Illustrations from Doyle's Return of Sherlock Holmes, Deepali Yadav
Chapter 5: Feminization of the Science of Detection: Agatha Christie's Unusual Detective-Partners, Amy Lee
Chapter 6: Locating The Murder of Roger Ackroyd in the tradition of Detective Fictions, Sourav Banerjee
Chapter 7: A Place for Campion, Campion in his Place: Reading Margery Allingham's Novels, Jonathan Wilkins
Chapter 8: Following Cordelia Gray: Gender 'Suitability' and Detective Fiction, Medha Bhadra Chowdhury
