Wilkie Collins Vera Caspary And The Evolution Of The Casebook Novel
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Author |
: A.B. Emrys |
Publisher |
: McFarland |
Total Pages |
: 218 |
Release |
: 2014-01-10 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780786485031 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0786485035 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (31 Downloads) |
Synopsis Wilkie Collins, Vera Caspary and the Evolution of the Casebook Novel by : A.B. Emrys
Wilkie Collins was one of the most popular novelists during England's Victorian era. While Collins scholarship has often focused on social issues, this critical study explores his formal ingenuity, particularly the novel of testimony constructed from epistolary fiction, trial reports and prose monologue. His innovations in form were later mirrored by Vera Caspary, who adapted The Woman in White three times into contemporary fiction. This text explores how the formal dialogue between Collins and Caspary has linked sensation fiction with noir thrillers and film noir.
Author |
: William Baker |
Publisher |
: Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages |
: 675 |
Release |
: 2023-07-31 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781009037495 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1009037498 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (95 Downloads) |
Synopsis Wilkie Collins in Context by : William Baker
This collection of essays by international scholars celebrates the 200th anniversary of Wilkie Collins's birth by exploring his unconventional life alongside his works, critical responses to his writings and their afterlife, and the literary and cultural contexts which shaped his fiction. Topics discussed include gender, science and medicine, music, law, race and empire, media adaptations, neo-Victorianism, disability, and ethics. Along with an analysis of his novels, the essays included also recognize the importance of his short stories, journalism, and contributions to Victorian theatre, most notably illuminating the strong connections between sensation fiction and melodrama, as well as exploring his influence on film and TV. Engaging with yet also delving far beyond the famous novels, this volume promotes awareness of Collins' remarkable and diverse writerly achievements and paints a vivid portrait of an author whose fluctuating reputation among contemporary critics stands in stark contrast to his immense and still-enduring popularity.
Author |
: Jessica Cox |
Publisher |
: Springer Nature |
Total Pages |
: 255 |
Release |
: 2019-11-11 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9783030292904 |
ISBN-13 |
: 3030292908 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (04 Downloads) |
Synopsis Neo-Victorianism and Sensation Fiction by : Jessica Cox
This book represents the first full-length study of the relationship between neo-Victorianism and nineteenth-century sensation fiction. It examines the diverse and multiple legacies of Victorian popular fiction by authors such as Wilkie Collins and Mary Elizabeth Braddon, tracing their influence on a range of genres and works, including detective fiction, YA writing, Gothic literature, and stage and screen adaptations. In doing so, it forces a reappraisal of critical understandings of neo-Victorianism in terms of its origins and meanings, as well as offering an important critical intervention in popular fiction studies. The work traces the afterlife of Victorian sensation fiction, taking in the neo-Gothic writing of Daphne du Maurier and Victoria Holt, contemporary popular historical detective and YA fiction by authors including Elizabeth Peters and Philip Pullman, and the literary fiction of writers such as Joanne Harris and Charles Palliser. The work will appeal to scholars and students of Victorian fiction, neo-Victorianism, and popular culture alike.
Author |
: Laura Joyce |
Publisher |
: Springer |
Total Pages |
: 295 |
Release |
: 2018-04-23 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9783319693385 |
ISBN-13 |
: 3319693387 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (85 Downloads) |
Synopsis Domestic Noir by : Laura Joyce
This book represents the first serious consideration of the 'domestic noir' phenomenon and, by extension, the psychological thriller. The only such landmark collection since Lee Horsley's The Noir Thriller, it extends the argument for serious, academic study of crime fiction, particularly in relation to gender, domestic violence, social and political awareness, psychological acuity, and structural and narratological inventiveness. As well as this, it shifts the debate around the sub-genre firmly up to date and brings together a range of global voices to dissect and situate the notion of 'domestic noir'. This book is essential reading for students, scholars, and fans of the psychological thriller.
Author |
: S. Powell |
Publisher |
: Springer |
Total Pages |
: 386 |
Release |
: 2012-08-07 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781137031662 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1137031662 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (62 Downloads) |
Synopsis 100 American Crime Writers by : S. Powell
100 American Crime Writers features discussion and analysis of the lives of crime writers and their key works, examining the developments in American crime writing from the Golden Age to hardboiled detective fiction. This study is essential to scholars and an ideal introduction to crime fiction for anyone who enjoys this fascinating genre.
Author |
: Elizabeth Foxwell |
Publisher |
: McFarland |
Total Pages |
: 265 |
Release |
: 2021-04-16 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781476644868 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1476644861 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (68 Downloads) |
Synopsis Clues: A Journal of Detection, Vol. 39, No. 1 (Spring 2021) by : Elizabeth Foxwell
For over two decades, Clues has included the best scholarship on mystery and detective fiction. With a combination of academic essays and nonfiction book reviews, it covers all aspects of mystery and detective fiction material in print, television and movies. As the only American scholarly journal on mystery fiction, Clues is essential reading for literature and film students and researchers; popular culture aficionados; librarians; and mystery authors, fans and critics around the globe.
Author |
: Elizabeth Foxwell |
Publisher |
: McFarland |
Total Pages |
: 319 |
Release |
: 2017-04-04 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781476630205 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1476630208 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (05 Downloads) |
Synopsis Clues: A Journal of Detection, Vol. 35, No. 1 (Spring 2017) by : Elizabeth Foxwell
For over two decades, Clues has included the best scholarship on mystery and detective fiction. With a combination of academic essays and nonfiction book reviews, it covers all aspects of mystery and detective fiction material in print, television and movies. As the only American scholarly journal on mystery fiction, Clues is essential reading for literature and film students and researchers; popular culture aficionados; librarians; and mystery authors, fans and critics around the globe.
Author |
: David Bordwell |
Publisher |
: Columbia University Press |
Total Pages |
: 558 |
Release |
: 2023-01-17 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780231556552 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0231556551 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (52 Downloads) |
Synopsis Perplexing Plots by : David Bordwell
Nominated, 2024 Edgar Allan Poe Award in the category of best critical/biographical, Mystery Writers of America Shortlisted, 2024 Agatha Awards - Best Mystery Nonfiction, Malice Domestic Posthumous Winner - 2023 IFCA Book Prize, International Crime Fiction Association Narrative innovation is typically seen as the domain of the avant-garde. However, techniques such as nonlinear timelines, multiple points of view, and unreliable narration have long been part of American popular culture. How did forms and styles once regarded as “difficult” become familiar to audiences? In Perplexing Plots, David Bordwell reveals how crime fiction, plays, and films made unconventional narrative mainstream. He shows that since the nineteenth century, detective stories and suspense thrillers have allowed ambitious storytellers to experiment with narrative. Tales of crime and mystery became a training ground where audiences learned to appreciate artifice. These genres demand a sophisticated awareness of storytelling conventions: they play games with narrative form and toy with audience expectations. Bordwell examines how writers and directors have pushed, pulled, and collaborated with their audiences to change popular storytelling. He explores the plot engineering of figures such as Raymond Chandler, Agatha Christie, Dashiell Hammett, Patricia Highsmith, Alfred Hitchcock, Dorothy Sayers, and Quentin Tarantino, and traces how mainstream storytellers and modernist experimenters influenced one another’s work. A sweeping, kaleidoscopic account written in a lively, conversational style, Perplexing Plots offers an ambitious new understanding of how movies, literature, theater, and popular culture have evolved over the past century.
Author |
: Elizabeth Foxwell |
Publisher |
: McFarland |
Total Pages |
: 322 |
Release |
: 2015-10-13 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781476621869 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1476621861 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (69 Downloads) |
Synopsis Clues: A Journal of Detection, Vol. 33, No. 2 (Fall 2015) by : Elizabeth Foxwell
For over two decades, Clues has included the best scholarship on mystery and detective fiction. With a combination of academic essays and nonfiction book reviews, it covers all aspects of mystery and detective fiction material in print, television and movies. As the only American scholarly journal on mystery fiction, Clues is essential reading for literature and film students and researchers; popular culture aficionados; librarians; and mystery authors, fans and critics around the globe.
Author |
: Julie Chappell |
Publisher |
: Springer |
Total Pages |
: 289 |
Release |
: 2017-07-03 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9783319472591 |
ISBN-13 |
: 3319472593 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (91 Downloads) |
Synopsis Bad Girls and Transgressive Women in Popular Television, Fiction, and Film by : Julie Chappell
This collection of essays focuses on the representations of a variety of “bad girls”—women who challenge, refuse, or transgress the patriarchal limits intended to circumscribe them—in television, popular fiction, and mainstream film from the mid-twentieth century to the present. Perhaps not surprisingly, the initial introduction of women into Western cultural narrative coincides with the introduction of transgressive women. From the beginning, for good or ill, women have been depicted as insubordinate. Today’s popular manifestations include such widely known figures as Lisbeth Salander (the “girl with the dragon tattoo”), The Walking Dead’s Michonne, and the queen bees of teen television series. While the existence and prominence of transgressive women has continued uninterrupted, however, attitudes towards them have varied considerably. It is those attitudes that are explored in this collection. At the same time, these essays place feminist/postfeminist analysis in a larger context, entering into ongoing debates about power, equality, sexuality, and gender.