Yale University Press Yale French Studies V108 Yale

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David F. Bell"Technologies of Speed, Technologies of Crime"Uri Eisenzweig"Violence Untold: The Birth of a Modern Fascination"Dominique Kalifa"Criminal Investigators at the Fin-de-siecle"Andrea Goulet"Curiosity Killer's Instinct: Bibliophilia and the Myth of the Rational Detective"Nanette Fornabai"Criminal Factors: Fantomas, Anthropometrics, and the Numerical Fictions of ModernCriminal Identity"Tom Gunning"Lynx-Eyed Detectives and Shadow Bandits: ""Visuality and Eclipse in French Detective""Stories and Films before WWI"Daniel Desormeaux"The First of the (Black) Memorialists: Toussaint Louverture"Albert Valdman"Haitian Creole at the Dawn of Independence"Deborah Jenson"From the Kidnapping(s) of the Louvertures to the Alleged Kidnapping of Aristide: Legacies of Slavery in the Post/Colonial World"Robert Rushing"Traveling Detectives: The 'Logic of Arrest' and the Pleasures of (Avoiding) the Real"Page Dubois"Oedipus as Detective: Sophocles, Simenon, Robbe-Grillet"David Platten"Into the Woods: Contemporary Roman Noir as Modern Fairy Tale"Claire Gorra"Reflections on Crime and Punishment: Memories of the Holocaust in Recent FrenchCrime Fiction"Pierre Verdaguer"Borrowed Settings: Frenchness in Anglo-American Detective Fiction"Pim Higginson"Mayhem at the Crossroads: Francophone African Fiction and the Rise of the Crime Novel"Susanna Lee"Punk Noir: Anarchy in Two Idioms"