Table of Contents Acknowledgments Preface Introduction: Outlander as Crime Fiction? Erin E. Macdonald The Numinous Corrupted: Supernatural Framings of Crime in Diana Gabaldon's Lord John Stories Compared to Outlander Kari Sawden Epistemophilia and Landscapes: Claire Randall as Metaphysical and Literal Sleuth in Outlander Katrina Younes Fixing Those Uppity Witches: Witchcraft and Healing as Crimes of Femininity in Outlander Racheal Harris "A Fugitive Green": Outsiders at Play with Convention Roy Geiger Living a Crime: Double Consciousness Follows Lord John as a Closeted Detective Valerie Estelle Frankel Lord John and the Age of Reason: Gabaldon's Atypical Rationalist Detective Erin E. Macdonald The Personal and Political Motivations for Crime and Crime Fighting in the Lord John Series Erin E. Macdonald Crime Solving "Gays": Anti-Stereotypical and Powerful Portrayals of Queer Sexualities in the Crime Fiction of Victor J. Banis and Diana Gabaldon Süleyman Bölükbas Disguising the Gay Hero as He Combats Crimes of the British Empire: Slavery and Colonialism in the Lord John Series Lisa Elwood-Farber Yi Tien Cho: Chinese or Criminal? Race and Criminality in Diana Gabaldon's Voyager Justine Trinh Crime, Trauma, and the Ethics of Jamie Fraser Racheal Harris Open Wounds: Decentering the Televisual Rape/Recovery Crime Narrative in Outlander Jason Davids Scott When Murder Isn't a Crime: Exploring Vigilante Justice in the Outlander Television Series Jaclyn Smith-Wilson "As you've never seen it before": Diana Gabaldon, Hoang Nguyen, and the Graphic Crime Novel Suzanne Manizza Roszak About the Contributors Index.
Outlander and Lord John As Crime Fiction : Essays on the Novels, Stories and TV Series