Legacies of the Rue Morgue: Street Names and Private-Public Violence in Modern French Crime Fiction

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Andrea Goulet is associate professor in the Department of French and in the Unit for Criticism and Interpretive Theory at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She is author of Optiques: The Science of the Eye and the Birth of Modern French Fiction (2006) and coeditor of a special issue of Yale French Studies, “Crime Fictions” (2005).