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Legacies of the Rue Morgue : science, space, and crime fiction in France / Andrea Goulet.

Author: Goulet, Andrea, author.

Imprint:Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2016]

Descriptionviii, 295 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Note: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 -- Zeropa-land : Balkanization and the schizocartographies of Dantec and Radoman.

Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references and index.



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Goulet, Andrea, author.
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Poe, Edgar Allan, 1809-1849 -- Influence.
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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 literature.
Space and time in literature.
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