Legacies of the Rue Morgue

Andrea Goulet is Professor of French at the University of Pennsylvania and author of Optiques: The Science of the Eye and the Birth of Modern French Fiction, also available from the University of Pennsylvania Press.

Prologue: Poe Chapter 1. Introduction: Mapping Murder PART I: ARCHAEOLOGIES Chapter 2. Quarries and Catacombs: Underground Crime in Second Empire Romans-feuilletons Chapter 3. Skulls and Bones: Paleohistory in Leroux and Leblanc Chapter 4. Crypts and Ghosts: Terrains of National Trauma in Japrisot and Vargas PART II: INTERSECTIONS Chapter 5. Street-Name Mysteries and Private/Public Violence, 1867-2001 PART III: CARTOGRAPHIES Chapter 6. Terrains Vagues: Gaboriau and the Birth of the Cartographic Mystery Chapter 7. Mapping the City: Malet's Mysteries and Butor's Bleston Chapter 8. ZEropa-Land: Balkanization and the Schizocartographies of Dantec and Radoman Epilogue Notes Index Acknowledgments

"Those who love detective fiction and film-or just France-will learn here to be detectives of the city of Paris above and below ground. The ghoulish, the geological, and the sublime merge in the layers of burial grounds, literary texts, and scientific paradigms. It is a wonderful book." (Deborah Jenson, Duke University) "The astounding variety, strength, and coherence of the theoretical and conceptual frameworks-involving the cultural history of crime and detection; the history of sciences; cutting-edge urban, space, and place studies; trauma theory and psychoanalysis; a deconstructionist approach to language and textuality; a literary history renewed by a history of the print media-as well as the brilliant close readings of various embodiments of modern and postmodern crime fiction make Legacies of the Rue Morgue an absolute intellectual delight." (Catherine Nesci, University of California, Santa Barbara)