A Companion to Crime Fiction
Published on 24. June 2010
Software
Other digital
648 pages
978-1-4443-3175-2 (ISBN)
Description
A Companion to Crime Fiction presents the definitive guide to this popular genre from its origins in the eighteenth century to the present day A collection of forty-seven newly commissioned essays from a team of leading scholars across the globe make this Companion the definitive guide to crime fiction Follows the development of the genre from its origins in the eighteenth century through to its phenomenal present day popularity Features full-length critical essays on the most significant authors and film-makers, from Arthur Conan Doyle and Dashiell Hammett to Alfred Hitchcock and Martin Scorsese exploring the ways in which they have shaped and influenced the field Includes extensive references to the most up-to-date scholarship, and a comprehensive bibliography
Reviews / Votes
"A Companion to Crime Fiction goes into enormous detail but is reasonably easy to read. It is not an academic-styled book but a guide to how crime fiction has developed over time to accommodate an increasingly demanding audience/reader. With essays from some of the most educated scholars in this field of research, the reader gains a greater understanding in terms of a general overview of the genre, individual authors and producers of film, the blurred lines between crime fiction and other genres and an in depth, well researched analysis of crime fiction itself." (M/C Reviews, November 2010)More details
Language
English
Place of publication
Chicester
United Kingdom
Publishing group
John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Dimensions
Height: 253 mm
Width: 179 mm
Thickness: 39 mm
Weight
1290 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-4443-3175-2 (9781444331752)
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Persons
Charles Rzepka is Professor of English at Boston University, where he teaches and writes on British Romanticism, popular culture, and detective and crime fiction. His publications include The Self as Mind (1986), Sacramental Commodities (1995), Detective Fiction (2005), and Essays, Inventions, Interventions (2010). Lee Horsley is Reader in Literature and Culture at Lancaster University, where she teaches two specialist crime courses. Her publications include Political Fiction and the Historical Imagination (1990), Fictions of Power in English Literature 1900-1950 (1995) Twentieth-Century Crime Fiction (2005), and an expanded paperback edition of the 2001 publication The Noir Thriller (2009).
Content
List of Figures. Notes on Contributors. Introduction: What Is Crime Fiction? ( Charles J. Rzepka ). Part I History, Criticism, Culture. 1 From The Newgate Calendar to Sherlock Holmes ( Heather Worthington ). 2 From Sherlock Holmes to the Present ( Lee Horsley ). 3 Criticism and Theory ( Heta Pyrhonen ). 4 Crime and the Mass Media ( Alain Silver and James Ursini ). 5 Crime Fiction and the Literary Canon ( Joel Black ). Part II Genre of a Thousand Faces. 6 The Newgate Novel and the Police Casebook ( Lauren Gillingham ). 7 From Sensation to the Strand ( Christopher Pittard ). 8 The "Classical" Model of the Golden Age ( Susan Rowland ). 9 Early American Crime Fiction: Origins to Urban Gothic ( Alexander Moudrov ). 10 The "Hard-boiled" Genre ( Andrew Pepper ). 11 The Pursuit of Crime: Characters in Crime Fiction ( Carl Malmgren ). 12 Crime, Forensics, and Modern Science ( Sarah Dauncey ). 13 The Police Novel ( Peter Messent ). 14 Noir and the Psycho Thriller ( Philip Simpson ). 15 True Crime ( David Schmid ). 16 Gangs and Mobs ( Jonathan Munby ). 17 Historical Crime and Detection ( Ray B. Browne ). 18 Crime and the Spy Genre ( David Seed ). 19 Crime and the Gothic ( Catherine Spooner ). 20 Feminist Crime Fiction and Female Sleuths ( Adrienne E. Gavin ). 21 African-American Detection and Crime Fiction ( Frankie Bailey ). 22 Ethnic Postcolonial Crime and Detection (Anglophone) ( Ed Christian ). 23 Crime Writing in Other Languages ( Sue Neale ). 24 Postmodern and Metaphysical Detection ( Patricia Merivale ). 25 Crime and Detective Literature for Young Readers ( Christopher Routledge ). 26 Crime in Comics and the Graphic Novel ( Arthur Fried ). 27 Criminal Investigation on Film ( Philippa Gates ). Part III Artists at Work. Fiction. 28 William Godwin (1756-1836) ( Philip Shaw ). 29 Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849) ( Maurice S. Lee ). 30 Wilkie Collins (1824-1889) ( Andrew Mangham ). 31 Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930) ( John A. Hodgson ). 32 Raymond Chandler (1888-1959) ( Leroy Lad Panek ). 33 Agatha Christie (1890-1976) ( Merja Makinen ). 34 James M. Cain (1892-1977) ( William Marling ). 35 Dorothy L. Sayers (1893-1957) ( Esme Miskimmin ). 36 Dashiell Hammett (1894-1961) ( Jasmine Yong Hall ). 37 Jorge Luis Borges (1899-1986) ( Alicia Borinsky ). 38 Chester Himes (1909-1984) ( Stephen Soitos ). 39 David Goodis (1917-1967) ( David Schmid ). 40 P. D. James (1920-) ( Louise Harrington ). 41 Patricia Highsmith (1921-1995) ( Bran Nicol ). 42 Elmore Leonard (1925-) ( Charles J. Rzepka ). 43 Sara Paretsky (1947-) ( Malcah Effron ). 44 Walter Mosley (1952-) ( John Gruesser ). Film. 45 Alfred Hitchcock (1899-1980) ( Nick Haeffner ). 46 Martin Scorsese (1942-) ( Mark Desmond Nicholls ). 47 John Woo (1946-) ( Karen Fang ). Conclusion ( Charles J. Rzepka and Lee Horsley ). References. Index.