Violent minds [electronic resource] : modernism and the criminal / Matthew Levay.

Introduction: Modernism's Violent Minds; Criminal Histories; Criminal Eras; Criminal Forms; Notes; Chapter 1 Modernist Detection: Minds, Mindlessness, and the Logic of Criminal Pursuit; Poe's Games; Doyle's Calculating Machine; Dorothy L. Sayers and the Artificial Sleuth; Notes; Chapter 2 Criminal Types: Anarchism, Terrorism, and the Violence of Chance; Terror as a Type; Henry James and the Born Criminal; Conrad's Accidental Anarchist; The Pure Emblem of Terror; Notes

Chapter 3 The Modernist Crime Novel: Popular Literature and the Forms of ExperimentHighbrow, Lowbrow, Middlebrow, Modernism; Wyndham Lewis and the Modernist Potboiler; Crime, for Stein; Notes; Chapter 4 Cases of Identity: Late Modernism and the Life of Crime; Dashiell Hammett's Career Criminals; Violent Entertainments; Murderous Self-Fashioning; Notes; Conclusion: The Criminal after Modernism; Bibliography; Index