The Detective's Companion in Crime Fiction : A Study in Sidekicks /

This book aims to establish the position of the sidekick character in the crime and detective fiction literary genres. It re-evaluates the traditional view that the sidekick character in these genres is often overlooked as having a small, generic or singular role-either to act as the foil to the det...

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author:	SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors:	Andrew, Lucy (Editor), Saunders, Samuel (Editor)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2021.
Edition:	1st ed. 2021.
Series:	Crime Files
Subjects:	Fiction. Literature, Modern-19th century. Literature, Modern-20th century. Literature, Modern-21st century. Motion pictures-Great Britain. Motion pictures-United States. Nineteenth-Century Literature. Twentieth-Century Literature. Contemporary Literature. British Cinema and TV. American Cinema and TV. Electronic books.
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book

Table of Contents:

1. Introduction: Step Forward, Sidekicks, Samuel Saunders and Lucy Andrew
2. "One Fixed Point in a Changing Age": Reframing the Sidekick, Michelle D. Miranda
3. "Passed by unnoticed": Surveillance and the Street Urchin in Wilkie Collins's The Moonstone, Oriah Amit
4. "...always with the Inspector": The Reader as Sidekick in Mid-Victorian 'Detective Literature', 1845-1887, Samuel Saunders
5. "You have a grand gift of silence, Watson": Re-Inventing Agency in Twenty-First-Century Adaptations of Dr Watson, Annette Wren
6. "A Look of Doglike Devotion'": Hercule Poirot's Stooges and Foils', J. C. Bernthal
7. Finding the Female Sidekick in the Lord Peter Wimsey Novels, Sally Bernadette Beresford-Sheridan
8. "Pretty, but not so pretty...": Marlowe's Female Sidekicks and the Domestication of Hard-boiled Detective Fiction, Alexander Howe
9. The Anti-Sidekick: Raymond "Mouse" Alexander, Double Consciousness and the Subversion of the Sidekick in Walter Mosley's Easy Rawlins Mysteries, Nathan Ashman
10. 72 Votes: Theorizing the Scapegoat Sidekick in Batman: A Death in the Family, Kwasu Tembo
11. "I'm gonna be the best friend you could ever hope for-and the worst enemy you could ever imagine.": Frank Miller's All Star Batman & Robin, the Boy Wonder and the Problem of the Boy Sidekick in the Twenty-First-Century Superhero Narrative, Lucy Andrew
12. "World's long on academics, Morse, but woeful short of good detectives": Lewis, Hathaway, and Endeavour; The Changing Roles of Colin Dexter's Sidekicks, David Bishop
13. Mooncakes and Squashed Fly Biscuits: Otherness in the Wells and Wong series, Alice Nuttall
14. Sherlock's Legacy: The Case of the Extraordinary Sidekick, Dominique Gracia.