| The Disabled Detective: Sleuthing Disability in Contemporary Crime Fiction Contributor(s): Mintz, Susannah B. (Author) |
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ISBN: 1350215430 ISBN-13: 9781350215436 Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC OUR PRICE: $42.52 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: February 2021 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | Mystery & Detective Fiction - Literary Criticism | Comparative Literature - Social Science | Media Studies |
| Physical Information: 0.47" H x 6.14" W x 9.21" (0.70 lbs) 224 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: The first book of its kind, The Disabled Detectiveexplores 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. |