Contributor
Agner, Jacob, editor.
ImprintJackson : University Press of Mississippi, [2023]
Descriptionvi, 245 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Note:Introduction: underground woman: the secret history of Eudora Welty and the mystery genre / Jacob Agner and Harriet Pollack -- Eudora Welty and mystery: noir variations / Michael Kreyling -- Reading Eudora Welty's "Petrified man" and "Old Mr. Marblehall" as southern pulp / Katie Berry Frye -- Detecting the forbidden fruit in Eudora Welty's The golden apples / Andrew B. Leiter -- Court's opened: The ponder heart and murderous women / Rebecca Mark -- The sleuth of Pinehurst Street / Tom Nolan -- Detecting Dr. Strickland: the author as "mindhunter" / Michael Pickard -- When a mystery leads to murder: genre bending, hommes fatals, thickening mystery, and the covert investigation of whiteness in Eudora Welty's Losing battles / Harriet Pollack -- Unsolving mysteries: reading Eudora Welty's The optimist's daughter with Agatha Christie's The body in the library / Sarah Gilbreath Ford -- Confluence: the fiction of Eudora Welty and Ross Macdonald / Suzanne Marrs -- Appendix: mysteries on the shelves in Eudora Welty's house / Michael Pickard and Victorial Richard.
Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Note:In Eudora Welty's puzzle-texts, she habitually engages with familiar genres and then delights readers with her transformations and nonfulfilment of conventions. This book reveals how often that play is with mystery, crime, and detective fiction genres, forms often condescended to in literary studies, but beloved by Welty throughout her lifetime.
