Author: Andrea Goulet
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 0812247795
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
Prologue : Poe 1 -- Introduction : Mapping murder -- Archaeologies. Quarries and catacombs : underground crime in Second Empire Romans-feuilletons -- Skulls and bones : paleohistory in Leroux and Leblanc -- Crypts and ghosts : terrains of national trauma in Japrisot and Vargas -- Intersections. Street-name mysteries and private/public violence, 1867-2001 -- Cartographies. Terrains vagues : Gaboriau and the birth of the cartographic mystery -- Mapping the city : Malet's mysteries and Butor's Bleston -- ZĂ©ropa-land : Balkanization and the schizocartographies of Dantec and Radoman