La Salle University's Phyllis Betz (
Katherine V. Forrest: A Critical Appreciation; Lesbian Detective Fiction: Woman as Author, Subject and Reader) plans to compile a collection of essays on the cozy mystery. Prospective topics/approaches of interest include the following:
- Discussion of authors, including precursors such as Mary Roberts Rinehart, Anna Katharine
Green, and Agatha Christie
- Settings
- Main characters, including their careers
- Other characters
- Themes
- Subgenres such as the gothic cozy and cozy noir
- Problems, including the definition of the cozy and those authors who can be defined as cozy writers
- Narrative strategies
Have questions or seek further information? Contact
Betz.
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