Western Crime Fiction Goes East
The Russian Pinkerton Craze 1907-1934
Biographical note
Boris Dralyuk received his Ph.D. (2011) in Slavic Languages and Literatures from UCLA, where he is now a Lecturer. He has published work on various topics in Russian, Polish, and American literature, and works as a translator.
Readership
All those interested in popular genres, crime fiction, popular culture in the Russian Empire, Soviet literature, the dynamics of adaptation and cultural appropriation.
Table of contents
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgements
Abstract
Introduction
Chapter 1 – “As Many Street Cops as Corners”: Displacing 1905
in the Pinkertons
Chapter 2 – A Terrible Vengeance: The “Avenger Detective” in Russia
Chapter 3 – Slumming Littérateurs and Starving Students
The Pinkertons’ Purported Authors
Chapter 4 – The Persistence of Pinkertons: Reception Before and
After the Revolution
Chapter 5 – The Red Pinkerton’s Rise: Bukharin and the Komsomol
Chapter 6 – How the Mess Was Mended: Marietta Shaginian and Red
Pinkertonism
Chapter 7 – The Novel, the Film, and the Kinoroman: Parody and the
Decline of the Red Pinkerton
Chapter 8 – The Question of Genre and the Pinkertons’ Legacy
Bibliography
Acknowledgements
Abstract
Introduction
Chapter 1 – “As Many Street Cops as Corners”: Displacing 1905
in the Pinkertons
Chapter 2 – A Terrible Vengeance: The “Avenger Detective” in Russia
Chapter 3 – Slumming Littérateurs and Starving Students
The Pinkertons’ Purported Authors
Chapter 4 – The Persistence of Pinkertons: Reception Before and
After the Revolution
Chapter 5 – The Red Pinkerton’s Rise: Bukharin and the Komsomol
Chapter 6 – How the Mess Was Mended: Marietta Shaginian and Red
Pinkertonism
Chapter 7 – The Novel, the Film, and the Kinoroman: Parody and the
Decline of the Red Pinkerton
Chapter 8 – The Question of Genre and the Pinkertons’ Legacy
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