Detecting Texts: The Metaphysical Detective Story from Poe to Postmodernism - Paperback

by Patricia Merivale (Editor), Susan Elizabeth Sweeney (Editor)

"Metaphysical detective stories reveal much about the relation of modernism to postmodernism and of high to low literary culture. Detecting Texts makes an excellent case for the coherence and breadth of the genre. Its broad scope, clear writing, an

Author Biography

Patricia Merivale is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of British Columbia. Susan Elizabeth Sweeney is Associate Professor of English at the College of the Holy Cross.