Tattoos in crime and detective narratives: Marking and remarking

Pt. 1 Psychoanalysis, Patternings And The Medical Imagination -- 1. A Knot Of Bodies: The Tattoo As Navel In Louisa May Alcott's `v.v.: Or, Plots And Counterplots' / Alexander N. Howe -- 2. Making Manhattan: Urban Hieroglyphics, Patternings And Tattoos In Edgar Allan Poe's `the Tell-tale Heart' And Herman Melville's Moby-dick; Or, The Whale / Spencer Jordan -- 3. Medical Men: Speculations Of Morality And Spirituality In Arthur Conan Doyle's Writings / David Beck -- Pt. 2 Practitioners, Place And Contemporary Identities -- 4. From Naive Artists To Integrated Professionals: The Portrayal Of Tattoos In Sarah Hall's The Electric Michelangelo And Alan Kent's Voodoo Pilchard / Hywel Dix -- 5. Mis-reading Moko: Cross-cultural Tattooing In Caryl Ferey's New Zealand Crime Fiction / Ellen Carter -- 6. Transforming Tattoos Of The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo / Kerstin Bergman -- Pt. 3 Urban Textualities, Humans And Other Animals -- 7. The Killing Floor And Crime Narratives: Marking Women And Nonhuman Animals / Rebekah Humphreys -- 8. The Tattoo Wakes: Sentient Ink, Curatorship And Writing The New Weird In China Mieville's Kraken: An Anatomy / Katharine Cox -- Pt. 4 Children's Literature: Dark Marks, Scars And Secret Societies -- 9. Dark Marks, Curse Scars And Corporal Punishment: Criminality And The Function Of Bodily Marks In The Harry Potter Series / Lucy Andrew -- 10. `since The Schism': Reading The Tattoo In Lemony Snicket's A Series Of Unfortunate Events / Katharine Cox -- Pt. 5 Film: Adaptation, Memory And Constructions Of Self -- 11. The Ink Of The Real: Memory And Identity In Christopher Nolan's Memento / Peter Figler -- 12. The Bounty Mutiny And Its Adaptations: Tattooing, Primitivism, Class And Criminality / Matt Oches -- Pt. 6 Television: Branding, Tech-noir And Fan Culture -- 13. Hunting For The Branded Body In Supernatural: Tattoos, The Mark Of Cain And Fan Culture / Karin Beeler -- 14. Generic Branding: Tattoos, Transgenics, And Tech-noir In Dark Angel / Will Slocombe -- 15. Tattoos, Deviance And Consumer Culture In North American Television: Criminal Minds, Csi: Ny And Law And Order / John Miller. Edited By Kate Watson And Katharine Cox. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.