Western Crime Fiction Goes East ：The Russian Pinkerton Craze 1907-1934 ( 1 )

Publication subTitle ：The Russian Pinkerton Craze 1907-1934

Publication series ：1

Author： Dralyuk   Boris  

Publisher： Brill‎

Publication year： 2012

E-ISBN: 9789004234895

P-ISBN(Paperback): 9789004233102

P-ISBN(Hardback):  9789004233102

Subject： I06 Literature, Literature Appreciation

Language： ENG

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Description

This book examines the staggering popularity of early-twentieth-century Russian detective serials, traditionally maligned as “Pinkertonovshchina,” and posits the “red Pinkerton” as a vital “missing link” between pre- and post-Revolutionary popular literature.

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Contents

pp.：  5 – 6

List of Illustrations

pp.：  7 – 8

Acknowledgments

pp.：  9 – 10

Note on Transliteration and Names

pp.：  11 – 12

Abstract

pp.：  13 – 14

Introduction

pp.：  15 – 20

Chapter One “As Many Street Cops as Corners”: Displacing 1905 in the Pinkertons

pp.：  21 – 42

Chapter Two A Terrible Vengeance: The “Avenger Detective” in Russia

pp.：  43 – 62

Chapter Three Slumming Littérateurs and Starving Students: The Pinkertons’ Purported Authors

pp.：  63 – 78

Chapter Four The Persistence of Pinkertons: Reception Before and After the Revolution

pp.：  79 – 96

Chapter Five The Red Pinkerton’s Rise: Bukharin and the Komsomol

pp.：  97 – 112

Chapter Six How the Mess Was Mended: Marietta Shaginian and Red Pinkertonism

pp.：  113 – 134

Chapter Seven The Novel, the Film, and the Kinoroman: Parody and the Decline of the Red Pinkerton

pp.：  135 – 154

Chapter Eight The Question of Genre and the Pinkertons’ Legacy

pp.：  155 – 174

Bibliography

pp.：  175 – 192

Index

pp.：  193 – 196

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