How Long to Read Dreams for Dead Bodies

How Long Does it Take to Read Dreams for Dead Bodies?

It takes the average reader 4 hours and 30 minutes to read Dreams for Dead Bodies by Miriam Michelle Robinson

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

Dreams for Dead Bodies: Blackness, Labor, and the Corpus of American Detective Fiction offers new arguments about the origins of detective fiction in the United States, tracing the lineage of the genre back to unexpected texts and uncovering how authors such as Edgar Allan Poe, Mark Twain, Pauline Hopkins, and Rudolph Fisher made use of the genre’s puzzle-elements to explore the shifting dynamics of race and labor in America. The author constructs an interracial genealogy of detective fiction to create a nuanced picture of the ways that black and white authors appropriated and cultivated literary conventions that coalesced in a recognizable genre at the turn of the twentieth century. These authors tinkered with detective fiction’s puzzle-elements to address a variety of historical contexts, including the exigencies of chattel slavery, the erosion of working-class solidarities by racial and ethnic competition, and accelerated mass production. Dreams for Dead Bodies demonstrates that nineteenth- and early twentieth-century American literature was broadly engaged with detective fiction, and that authors rehearsed and refined its formal elements in literary works typically relegated to the margins of the genre. By looking at these margins, the book argues, we can better understand the origins and cultural functions of American detective fiction.

How long is Dreams for Dead Bodies?

Dreams for Dead Bodies by Miriam Michelle Robinson is 265 pages long, and a total of 67,575 words.

This makes it 89% the length of the average book. It also has 83% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Dreams for Dead Bodies Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 6 hours and 9 minutes to read Dreams for Dead Bodies aloud.

What Reading Level is Dreams for Dead Bodies?

Dreams for Dead Bodies is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

Note that there may be other factors that effect this rating besides length that are not factored in on this page. This may include things like complex language or sensitive topics not suitable for students of certain ages.

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