Book contents
- A History of American Crime Fiction
- A History of American Crime Fiction
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Part I Early American Era
- Part II Romantic Era
- Chapter 3 Crime Journalism and the Urban Gothic Novel
- Chapter 4 Crime and American Romanticism
- Chapter 5 The Dark Transactions of a Black?
- Chapter 6 Edgar Allan Poe and the Emergence of the Literary Detective
- Part III Realist Era
- Part IV Modernist Era
- Part V Postmodernist Era
- Index
- References
Chapter 5 - The Dark Transactions of a Black?
Slave Narratives in the Crime Literature Tradition
from Part II - Romantic Era
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Book contents
- A History of American Crime Fiction
- A History of American Crime Fiction
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Part I Early American Era
- Part II Romantic Era
- Chapter 3 Crime Journalism and the Urban Gothic Novel
- Chapter 4 Crime and American Romanticism
- Chapter 5 The Dark Transactions of a Black?
- Chapter 6 Edgar Allan Poe and the Emergence of the Literary Detective
- Part III Realist Era
- Part IV Modernist Era
- Part V Postmodernist Era
- Index
- References
- Type
- Chapter
- Information
- A History of American Crime Fiction , pp. 69 - 82Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2017
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