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<p>Taking Edgar Allan Poe's 1841 "The Murders in the Rue Morgue" as an inaugural frame, Andrea Goulet traces shifting representations of violence, space, and nation in French crime fiction from serial novels of the 1860s to cyberpunk fictions today. She argues that the history of spatial sciences—geology, paleontology, cartography—helps elucidate the genre's fundamental tensions: between brutal murder and pure reason; historical past and reconstructive present; national identity and global netwo

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Author

Goulet, Andrea

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania Press, Inc.

Published

2016

Language

EN

ISBN

9780812247794

Category

literary studies

Subjects

Fiction, Mystery, Literary Fiction

Updated

2026-03-25