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The Victorian Naturalist

v.35-36 (1918-1920)

The Victorian Naturalist

v.33-34 (1916-1918)

Letter from Josiah Quincy to Loammi Baldwin, 1836 May 28

One-page handwritten letter of introduction for Sarah King, widow of Edward King of Cincinnati.

Fleshing Out and Losing Flesh: The Decomposing Corpse as Narrative Object in American Hardboiled Detective Fiction

This dissertation examines the corpse as an object in and of American hardboiled detective fiction written between 1920 and 1950. I deploy several theoretical frames, including narratology, body-as-text theory, object relations theory, and genre theory, in order to demonstrate the significance of objects, symbols, and things primarily in the clever and crafty work of Dashiell Hammett (1894-1961) and Raymond Chandler (1888-1959), but also touching on the writings of their lesser known accomplices. I construct a literary genealogy of American hardboiled detective fiction originating in the writings of Edgar Allan Poe, compare the contributions of classic or Golden Age detective fiction in England, and describe the socio-economic contexts, particularly the predominance of the “pulps,” that gave birth to the realism of the Hardboiled School. Taking seriously Chandler’s obsession with the art of murder, I engage with how authors pre-empt their readers’ knowledge of the tricks of the trade and manipulate their expectations, as well as discuss the characteristics and effect of the inimitable hardboiled style, its sharpshooting language and deadpan humour. Critical scholarship has rarely addressed the body and figure of the corpse, preferring to focus instead on the machinations of the femme fatale, the performance of masculinity, or the prevalence of violence. I cast new light on the world of hardboiled detective fiction by dissecting the corpse as the object that both motivates and de-composes (or rots away from) the narrative that makes it signify. I treat the corpse as an inanimate object, indifferent to representation, that destabilizes the integrity and self-possession, as well as the ratiocination, of the detective who authors the narrative of how the corpse came to be. The corpse is all deceptive and dangerous surface rather than the container of hidden depths of life and meaning that the detective hopes to uncover and reconstruct. I conclude with a chapter that is both critical denouement and creative writing experiment to reveal the self-reflexive (and at times metafictional) dimensions of hardboiled fiction. My dissertation, too, in the manner of hardboiled fiction, hopes to incriminate my readers as much as enlighten them.

Roster.

Mode of access: Internet.

[Publications].

"One hundred and two copies printed."

An old captivity,

A young airmen, an Oxford don, and his daughter are aided on an expedition to the Arctic by Norsemen and their longships of a thousand years before.

Itinerarium provinciarvm Antonini Augusti. Vibius Sequester De fluminũ & aliarum rerum nominibus in ordinem elementorum digestis. P. Victor De regionibus urbis Romae. Dionysius Afer De situ orbis Prisciano interprete. Opuscula praescripta quae & incunda, & necessaria scitu plurima complectuntur, non inuenustis typis nuper excusa, & in gratiam studiosorum, ad exemplar Aldinum diligenter emendata fuere.

Signatures: A-N⁸.

Letters to Lady Welby,

Mode of access: Internet.

Constitution and by-laws ... Organized October 4th, 1865.

Mode of access: Internet.

Used car safety standards (vehicle safety status). Final report. Volume II (SNS 1-10).

National Highway Safety Bureau, Washington, D.C.

Used car safety standards (vehicle safety status). Final report. Volume I.

National Highway Safety Bureau, Washington, D.C.

Used car safety standards (vehicle safety status). Final report. Volume IIA (SN 11 A).

National Highway Safety Bureau, Washington, D.C.

American engravers upon copper and steel /

"The committee on publications of the Grolier club certifies that this copy of ʻAmerican engravers upon cooper and steel' is one of an edition of three hundred and fifty copies in two volumes, printed on imported mold-made paper, and three copies on imperial Japan paper, and that all were printed in nineteen hundred and seven."