an avid fan of dime novels, so much so that he had nicknamed himself “Kansas Charley.” The murder made tantalizing headlines, playing on the fears of anxious middle-class parents and pedagogues. One report warns that despite “his extreme youth
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The Nineteenth-Century Dime Western, Boyhood, and Empowered Adolescence
Martin Woodside
Travelling Detectives
Twofold Mobility in the Appropriation of Crime Fiction in Interwar Germany
Christian Huck
This article is concerned with travelling detectives in two different but related senses. On the one hand, it considers the relevance of trains and other vehicles of mobility for detective fiction, both as a topic of fiction and a place of consumption. On the other hand, it registers that detective fiction has to “travel“ in a more abstract sense before the reading traveler can enjoy it. German publishers appropriated the genre, originally a nineteenth-century American and British invention, at the beginning of the twentieth century. Based on contemporary observations by German cultural critics Walter Benjamin and Siegfried Kracauer, the essay examines German crime-fiction dime novels from the interwar period, compares them to their American predecessors, and analyzes their relationship to mobility and cultural transfer. The text argues that the spatial mobility of the fictional detective is only possible in a specific cultural environment to which the moving but corporeally immobile reader has to be transferred imaginatively.
Reframing the Western Genre in Bande dessinée, from Hollywood to Ledger Art
An Intermedial Perspective
Nicolas Martinez
literature and the visual arts (painting, photography, cinema). These recurrent elements can be found in dime novels and Western novels that often come illustrated—already in the early occurrences—and in Western films, but equally in paintings, photography
In European Comic Art
- Published (Print):
- 01 Sep 2021
- Article Type:
- Research Article
- Pages:
- 74–101 (28 total)
Editorial
Diederik F. Janssen
received much of researchers’ attention (despite substantial attention to dime novels and boys’ literature of this period). Woodside chronicles how Beadle & Adams Half Dime Library, catering to the boy demographic for more than 28 years between 1877 and