Date of Award
5-1-2024
Language
English
Document Type
Master's Thesis
Degree Name
Master of Arts (MA)
College/School/Department
Department of English
Dissertation/Thesis Chair
Aashish Kaul
Committee Members
Erica Fretwell
Subject Categories
English Language and Literature
Abstract
This thesis incorporates psychoanalysis in an exploration of the dynamics of body, identity, motion, and desire throughout urban crime fiction. Starting at the very origins of the genre with Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Man of the Crowd” (1840), working its way to Patricia Highsmith’s Strangers on a Train (1950) and Megan Abbott’s contemporary Dare Me (2012), to finally culminating with the film Saltburn (2023). The examination of subjectless subjects within these texts reveal the ways in which homoeroticism coalesces against the sexualized modern landscape.
Recommended Citation
Dies, Nina, "Topographies Of Desire: On Becoming The Other In Urban Crime Fiction" (2024). Legacy Theses & Dissertations (2009 - 2024). 3307.
https://scholarsarchive.library.albany.edu/legacy-etd/3307
