Detective Fiction on the Case of Community: The Mystery at the Heart of the Modern

It examines one of modernity's most trenchant problems.The project rests on the argument that detective fiction emerges specifically from an awareness of the stress that modernization puts on the possibilities of communal life, as industrialization and urbanism accelerate the alienation and atomization we recognize as modern conditions Cover Half Title Series Page Title Page Copyright Page Dedication Table of Contents Chapter 1 Introduction: The Mystery of the Vanishing Community Chapter 2 Investigation Begins: The Mystery and Promise of Analysis Dupin and a Reimagining of the World Sherlock Holmes, the Aesthetics of Mystery, and the Relations of Investigation Conclusion: Fairy Tales of the Modern Notes References Chapter 3 Investigations Below: Latin American Detection and the Ecosophical Turn Detective Fiction in the Latin American Literary Field Borges Rewriting Poe Borges’s Literary Event and the Boom Piglia and Detection as Ecosophical Conclusion: Detection and the Politics of the Possible Notes References Chapter 4 Investigations Together: Pynchon’s Detectives of Incommensurable Mystery Immunization in The Crying of Lot 49 Vineland and the Belated Moment of Welcome to Planet Earth Corrupt Pilgrims of Incommensurable Mystery Conclusion: Being Nihilistic Together Notes References Chapter 5 Epilogue: Detecting the Genre in Action Index