Legacies of the Rue Morgue

Andrea Goulet

earliest edition we have, 2015 University of Pennsylvania Press, 2015 304 pages

Taking Edgar Allan Poe's 1841 "The Murders in the Rue Morgue" as an inaugural frame, Andrea Goulet traces shifting representations of violence, space, and nation in French crime fiction from serial novels of the 1860s to cyberpunk fictions today. She argues that the history of spatial sciences{u2014}geology, paleontology, cartography{u2014}helps elucidate the genre's fundamental tensions: between brutal murder and pu...

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Legacies of the Rue Morgue edition · 2015 · University of Pennsylvania Press · 304 pages · 9780812292169
Legacies of the Rue Morgue hardcover · 2015 · University of Pennsylvania Press · 304 pages · 9780812247794

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