Resisting Arrest: Detective Fiction and Popular Culture

A volume in the Cultural Studies Series edited by Samir Dayal

An innovative and entertaining look at genre, popular culture, enjoyment, and psychoanalysis.

Detective fiction, a category that, broadly defined, runs the gamut from Oedipus Rex to "The Purloined Letter," continues to draw a range of fans and scholars, and to play a pivotal role in popular entertainment, contemporary literature, and psychoanalytic theory. But how do we derive pleasure from reading about o…