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With their intimate settings, subdued action and likeable
characters, cozy mysteries are rarely seen as anything more than
light entertainment. The cozy, a subgenre of crime fiction, has
been historically misunderstood and often overlooked as the subject
of serious study. This anthology brings together a groundbreaking
collection of essays that examine the cozy mystery from a range of
critical viewpoints. The authors engage with the standard
classification of a cozy, the characters who appear in its pages,
the environment where the crime occurs and how these elements
reveal the cozy story's complexity in surprising ways. Essays
analyze cozy mysteries to argue that Agatha Christie is actually
not a cozy writer; that Columbo fits the mold of the cozy
detective; and that the stories' portrayals of settings like the
quaint English village reveal a more complicated society than meets
the eye.
Best known for her Kate Delafield detective series, Katherine V.
Forrest is recognized as one of the preeminent figures in lesbian
popular literature. Yet her work has received little scholarly
attention. This critical study explores Forrest's entire body of
work, including her fiction and (perhaps more important) her
writing about writing, popular genres and her readers. Her science
fiction and romance novels are analyzed, with a focus on the
reasons behind their enduring appeal. Her most famous romance,
Curious Wine, originally published in 1984, remains in print-a
longevity far exceeding the typical romance novel.
This critical analysis of the popular romance novel genre offers an
evaluation of the field through the subgenre of the lesbian romance
novel. The author describes the history of the lesbian romance
novel and analyses both individual works by authors writing in the
genre as well as describing the ways in which lesbian romance
novels reflect and transform the techniques of heterosexual
romances.
This work examines how lesbian detective and mystery fiction
represents lesbian characters and experience within the confines of
the genre. As this book points out, such fiction reveals the
lesbian's increasing visibility in the wider society. Nevertheless,
it can still be difficult to find a complete representation of
lesbian life in mainstream literature. Often the best place to find
the lesbian represented in books is within the pages of genre
fiction--especially the detective story. This book looks at how the
lesbian characters' public and private lives intersect--often at
the point of coming out, or of moving from isolation to connection
with the community. Also considered is the lesbian detective's
typical confrontation with two crucial elements of the
investigator's role: the use of violence and the acquisition and
expression of authority within police systems. Other topics of
discussion include the cultural environments in which the stories
are situated, and the use of humor as a key weapon in the lesbian
detective's investigative arsenal.
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