 | Legacies of the Rue Morgue: Science, Space, and Crime Fiction in France Subjects: Detective and mystery stories French -- History and criticism; French fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticism; French fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism; French fiction -- 21st century -- History and criticism; Science in literatur; Taking Edgar Allan Poe's 1841 "The Murders in the Rue Morgue" as an inaugural frame, Andrea Goulet traces the shifting representations of violence, space, and nation in French crime fiction from serial novels of the 1860s to cyberpunk fictions today. Andrea Goulet is Professor of French at the University of Pennsylvania and author of Optiques: The Science of the Eye and the Birth of Modern French Fiction, also available from the University of Pennsylvania Press. |
