{"product_id":"eudora-welty-and-mystery-hidden-in-plain-sight-paperback","title":"Eudora Welty and Mystery: Hidden in Plain Sight - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJacob Agner\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor), \u003cb\u003eHarriet Pollack\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eContributions by Jacob Agner, Sarah Gilbreath Ford, Katie Berry Frye, Michael Kreyling, Andrew B. Leiter, Rebecca Mark, Suzanne Marrs, Tom Nolan, Michael Pickard, Harriet Pollack, and Victoria Richard \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eEudora Welty's ingenious play with readers' expectations made her a cunning writer, a paramount modernist, a short story artist of the first rank, and a remarkable literary innovator. In her signature puzzle-texts, she habitually engages with familiar genres and then delights readers with her transformations and nonfulfillment of conventions\u003ci\u003e. Eudora Welty and Mystery: Hidden in Plain Sight\u003c\/i\u003e reveals how often that play is with mystery, crime, and detective fiction genres, popular fiction forms often condescended to in literary studies, but unabashedly beloved by Welty throughout her lifetime. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Put another way, Welty often creates her stories' secrets by both evoking and displacing crime fiction conventions. Instead of restoring order with a culminating reveal, her story-puzzles characteristically allow mystery to linger and thicken. The mystery pursued becomes mystery elsewhere. The essays in this collection shift attention from narratives, characters, and plots as they have previously been understood by unearthing enigmas hidden within those constructions. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Some of these new readings continue Welty's investigation of hegemonic whiteness and southern narratives of race--outlining these in chalk as outright crime stories. Other essays show how Welty anticipated the regendering of the form now so characteristic of contemporary women mystery writers. Her tender and widely ranging personal correspondence with the hard-boiled American crime writer Ross Macdonald is also discussed. Together these essays make the case that across her career, Eudora Welty was arguably one of the genre's greatest double agents, and, to apply the titles of Macdonald's novels to her inventiveness with the form, she is its \"underground woman,\" its unexpected \"sleeping beauty.\"\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJacob Agner\u003c\/b\u003e is a PhD candidate in English at the University of Mississippi. As a recipient of the Eudora Welty Research Fellowship, funded by the Eudora Welty Foundation and the Mississippi Department of Archives and History, he has examined the writer's correspondence for connections to film history and film noir. \u003cb\u003eHarriet Pollack\u003c\/b\u003e, College of Charleston, is author of \u003ci\u003eEudora Welty's Fiction and Photography: The Body of the Other Woman \u003c\/i\u003eand editor of \u003ci\u003eNew Essays on Eudora Welty, Class, and Race\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eEudora Welty, Whiteness, and Race\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eEmmett Till in Literary Memory and Imagination\u003c\/i\u003e (with Christopher Metress); \u003ci\u003eEudora Welty and Politics: Did the Writer Crusade?\u003c\/i\u003e (with Suzanne Marrs); and \u003ci\u003eHaving Our Way: Women Rewriting Tradition in Twentieth-Century America\u003c\/i\u003e. She now serves as editor of University Press of Mississippi's book series Critical Perspectives on Eudora Welty.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 252\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.57 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e December 28, 2022\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42731257954367,"sku":"9781496842718","price":75.6,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0105\/8226\/1823\/files\/180df767ba78257a710943e771f723b9_3cfddb38-026b-479d-9cd5-50286a23a90c.webp?v=1765128258","url":"https:\/\/dhlswag.com\/products\/eudora-welty-and-mystery-hidden-in-plain-sight-paperback","provider":"BBB","version":"1.0","type":"link"}