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Western crime fiction goes East [electronic resource] : the Russian Pinkerton craze 1907-1934 / by Boris Dralyuk

Author:
Dralyuk, Boris
Published:
Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2012.
Physical Description:
xiv, 182 pages : some colored illustrations ; 25 cm.
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Contents:
"As many street cops as corners": displacing 1905 in the Pinkertons -- A terrible vengeance: the "avenger detective" in Russia -- Slumming litterateurs and starving students: the Pinkertons' purported authors -- The persistence of Pinkertons: reception before and after the revolution -- The red Pinkerton's rise: Bukharin and the Komsomol -- How the mess was mended: Marietta Shaginian and red pinkertonism -- The novel, the film, and the kinoroman: parody and the decline of the red Pinkerton -- The question of genre and the Pinkertons' legacy.
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ISBN:
9789004233102 (hardback : acid-free paper)
9789004234895 (e-book)
Bibliography Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 161-177) and index.
View MARC record | catkey: 20539337