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Author |
: Stephen Knight |
Publisher |
: Palgrave Macmillan |
Total Pages |
: 240 |
Release |
: 2004-01-17 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0333791797 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780333791790 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (97 Downloads) |
Synopsis Crime Fiction, 1800-2000 by : Stephen Knight
Stephen Knight's book is a full analytic survey of crime fiction from its origins in the nineteenth century to the most recent developments. Knight explains how and why the various forms of the genre evolved, explores major authors and movements, and argues that the genre as a whole has three parts: the early development of Detection, the growing emphasis on Death, and the modern celebration of Diversity. The best criticism is cited and the book provides full references and a helpful chronology, making this a highly readable complete study of a popular and still relatively underexamined genre.
Author |
: Martin Priestman |
Publisher |
: Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages |
: 316 |
Release |
: 2003-11-06 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0521008719 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780521008716 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (19 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Cambridge Companion to Crime Fiction by : Martin Priestman
This Companion covers British and American crime fiction from the eighteenth century to the end of the twentieth. As well as discussing the 'detective' fiction of writers like Arthur Conan Doyle, Agatha Christie and Raymond Chandler, it considers other kinds of fiction where crime plays a substantial part, such as the thriller and spy fiction. It also includes chapters on the treatment of crime in the eighteenth-century literature, French and Victorian fiction, women and black detectives, crime on film and TV, police fiction and postmodernist uses of the detective form.
Author |
: John Scaggs |
Publisher |
: Psychology Press |
Total Pages |
: 192 |
Release |
: 2005 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0415318254 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780415318259 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (54 Downloads) |
Synopsis Crime Fiction by : John Scaggs
Provides a lively introduction to what is both a wide-ranging and hugely popular literary genre. Accessible and clear, this comprehensive overview is the essential guide for all those studying crime fiction.
Author |
: LeRoy Lad Panek |
Publisher |
: McFarland |
Total Pages |
: 237 |
Release |
: 2015-01-24 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780786481385 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0786481382 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (85 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Origins of the American Detective Story by : LeRoy Lad Panek
Edgar Allan Poe essentially invented the detective story in 1841 with Murders in the Rue Morgue. In the years that followed, however, detective fiction in America saw no significant progress as a literary genre. Much to the dismay of moral crusaders like Anthony Comstock, dime novels and other sensationalist publications satisfied the public's hunger for a yarn. Things changed as the century waned, and eventually the detective was reborn as a figure of American literature. In part these changes were due to a combination of social conditions, including the rise and decline of the police as an institution; the parallel development of private detectives; the birth of the crusading newspaper reporter; and the beginnings of forensic science. Influential, too, was the new role model offered by a wildly popular British import named Sherlock Holmes. Focusing on the late 19th century and early 20th, this volume covers the formative years of American detective fiction. Instructors considering this book for use in a course may request an examination copy here.
Author |
: C. Clarke |
Publisher |
: Springer |
Total Pages |
: 230 |
Release |
: 2014-09-26 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780230390546 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0230390544 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (46 Downloads) |
Synopsis Late Victorian Crime Fiction in the Shadows of Sherlock by : C. Clarke
This book investigates the development of crime fiction in the 1880s and 1890s, challenging studies of late-Victorian crime fiction which have given undue prominence to a handful of key figures and have offered an over-simplified analytical framework, thereby overlooking the generic, moral, and formal complexities of the nascent genre.
Author |
: Peter Messent |
Publisher |
: John Wiley & Sons |
Total Pages |
: 272 |
Release |
: 2012-08-30 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781118326541 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1118326547 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (41 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Crime Fiction Handbook by : Peter Messent
The Crime Fiction Handbook presents a comprehensive introduction to the origins, development, and cultural significance of the crime fiction genre, focusing mainly on American British, and Scandinavian texts. Provides an accessible and well-written introduction to the genre of crime fiction Moves with ease between a general overview of the genre and useful theoretical approaches Includes a close analysis of the key texts in the crime fiction tradition Identifies what makes crime fiction of such cultural importance and illuminates the social and political anxieties at its heart. Shows the similarities and differences between British, American, and Scandinavian crime fiction traditions
Author |
: Lee Horsley |
Publisher |
: OUP Oxford |
Total Pages |
: 328 |
Release |
: 2005-08-25 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780191557897 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0191557897 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (97 Downloads) |
Synopsis Twentieth-Century Crime Fiction by : Lee Horsley
Twentieth-Century Crime Fiction aims to enhance understanding of one of the most popular forms of genre fiction by examining a wide variety of the detective and crime fiction produced in Britain and America during the twentieth century. It will be of interest to anyone who enjoys reading crime fiction but is specifically designed with the needs of students in mind. It introduces different theoretical approaches to crime fiction (e.g., formalist, historicist, psychoanalytic, postcolonial, feminist) and will be a useful supplement to a range of crime fiction courses, whether they focus on historical contexts, ideological shifts, the emergence of sub-genres, or the application of critical theories. Forty-seven widely available stories and novels are chosen for detailed discussion. In seeking to illuminate the relationship between different phases of generic development Lee Horsley employs an overlapping historical framework, with sections doubling back chronologically in order to explore the extent to which successive transformations have their roots within the earlier phases of crime writing, as well as responding in complex ways to the preoccupations and anxieties of their own eras. The first part of the study considers the nature and evolution of the main sub-genres of crime fiction: the classic and hard-boiled strands of detective fiction, the non-investigative crime novel (centred on transgressors or victims), and the 'mixed' form of the police procedural. The second half of the study examines the ways in which writers have used crime fiction as a vehicle for socio-political critique. These chapters consider the evolution of committed, oppositional strategies, tracing the development of politicized detective and crime fiction, from Depression-era protests against economic injustice to more recent decades which have seen writers launching protests against ecological crimes, rampant consumerism, Reaganomics, racism, and sexism.
Author |
: Maurizio Ascari |
Publisher |
: Springer |
Total Pages |
: 236 |
Release |
: 2007-09-05 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780230234536 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0230234534 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (36 Downloads) |
Synopsis A Counter-History of Crime Fiction by : Maurizio Ascari
This book takes a look at the evolution of crime fiction. Considering 'criminography' as a system of inter-related sub-genres, it explores the connections between modes of literature such as revenge tragedies, the gothic and anarchist fiction, while taking into account the influence of pseudo-sciences such as mesmerism and criminal anthropology.
Author |
: Richard Bradford |
Publisher |
: OUP Oxford |
Total Pages |
: 153 |
Release |
: 2015-05-28 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780191642708 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0191642703 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (08 Downloads) |
Synopsis Crime Fiction: A Very Short Introduction by : Richard Bradford
Crime fiction has been one of the most popular genres since the 19th century, but has roots in works as varied as Sophocles, Herodotus, and Shakespeare. In this Very Short Introduction Richard Bradford explores the history of the genre, by considering the various definitions of 'crime fiction' and looking at how it has developed over time. Discussing the popularity of crime fiction worldwide and its various styles; the role that gender plays within the genre; spy fiction, and legal dramas and thrillers; he explores how the crime novel was shaped by the work of British and American authors in the 18th and 19th centuries. Highlighting the works of notorious authors such as Edgar Allan Poe, Conan Doyle, Agatha Christie, and Raymond Chandler — to name but a few — he considers the role of the crime novel in modern popular culture and asks whether we can, and whether we should, consider crime fiction serious 'literature'. ABOUT THE SERIES: The Very Short Introductions series from Oxford University Press contains hundreds of titles in almost every subject area. These pocket-sized books are the perfect way to get ahead in a new subject quickly. Our expert authors combine facts, analysis, perspective, new ideas, and enthusiasm to make interesting and challenging topics highly readable.
Author |
: Catherine Ross Nickerson |
Publisher |
: Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages |
: 207 |
Release |
: 2010-07-08 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780521136068 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0521136067 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (68 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Cambridge Companion to American Crime Fiction by : Catherine Ross Nickerson
This Companion examines the range of American crime fiction from execution sermons of the Colonial era to television programmes like The Sopranos.