Yale French Studies, Number 108

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David F. BellTechnologies of Speed, Technologies of CrimeUri EisenzweigViolence Untold: The Birth of a Modern FascinationDominique KalifaCriminal Investigators at the Fin-de-siècleAndrea GouletCuriosity Killer’s Instinct: Bibliophilia and the Myth of the Rational DetectiveNanette FornabaiCriminal Factors: Fantômas, Anthropometrics, and the Numerical Fictions of ModernCriminal IdentityTom GunningLynx-Eyed Detectives and Shadow Bandits: Visuality and Eclipse in French DetectiveStories and Films before WWIDaniel DesormeauxThe First of the (Black) Memorialists: Toussaint LouvertureAlbert ValdmanHaitian Creole at the Dawn of IndependenceDeborah JensonFrom the Kidnapping(s) of the Louvertures to the Alleged Kidnapping of Aristide: Legacies of Slavery in the Post/Colonial WorldRobert RushingTraveling Detectives: The ‘Logic of Arrest’ and the Pleasures of (Avoiding) the RealPage DuboisOedipus as Detective: Sophocles, Simenon, Robbe-GrilletDavid PlattenInto the Woods: Contemporary Roman Noir as Modern Fairy TaleClaire GorraReflections on Crime and Punishment: Memories of the Holocaust in Recent FrenchCrime FictionPierre VerdaguerBorrowed Settings: Frenchness in Anglo-American Detective FictionPim HigginsonMayhem at the Crossroads: Francophone African Fiction and the Rise of the Crime NovelSusanna LeePunk Noir: Anarchy in Two Idioms