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Economic Investigations in Twentieth-Century Detective Fiction Expenditure, Labor, Value
By Yan Zi-Ling
Copyright 2015
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Routledge
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Routledge
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In his study of Golden Age and hard-boiled detective fiction from 1890 to 1950, Yan Zi-Ling argues that these two subgenres can be distinguished not only by theme and style, but by the way they structure knowledge, value, and productive labour. Using the detective as a reference point and enactor of socially based interests, Yan shows that Golden Age texts are distinguished by their... Read more
Ideology critique and economics in detective fiction. Conservationism, enclosure, and totalitarianism. Expenditure and discursive recuperation. Clue, value, and counterfeit. Detective labor. Hard-boiled gift-labor and the aneconomic gift. Conclusion: the theatrical economy. Works cited.
Biography
Yan Zi-Ling is an associate professor at National University of Tainan, Taiwan.
