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A Companion to Crime Fiction / Edition 1
- ISBN-10:
- 1405167653
- ISBN-13:
- 9781405167659
- Pub. Date:
- 03/15/2010
- Publisher:
- Wiley
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A Companion to Crime Fiction / Edition 1
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- 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
Product Details
ISBN-13: | 9781405167659 |
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Publisher: | Wiley |
Publication date: | 03/15/2010 |
Series: | Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture , #108 |
Pages: | 650 |
Product dimensions: | 7.00(w) x 9.70(h) x 1.60(d) |
About the Author
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).
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Table of Contents
List of Figures ixNotes on Contributors xi
Introduction: What Is Crime Fiction? 1 Charles J. Rzepka
Part I History, Criticism, Culture 11
1 From The Newgate Calendar to Sherlock Holmes 13 Heather Worthington
2 From Sherlock Holmes to the Present 28 Lee Horsley
3 Criticism and Theory 43 Heta Pyrhönen
4 Crime and the Mass Media 57 Alain Silver and James Ursini
5 Crime Fiction and the Literary Canon 76 Joel Black
Part II Genre of a Thousand Faces 91
6 The Newgate Novel and the Police Casebook 93 Lauren Gillingham
7 From Sensation to the Strand 105 Christopher Pittard
8 The “Classical” Model of the Golden Age 117 Susan Rowland
9 Early American Crime Fiction: Origins to Urban Gothic 128 Alexander Moudrov
10 The “Hard-boiled” Genre 140 Andrew Pepper
11 The Pursuit of Crime: Characters in Crime Fiction 152 Carl Malmgren
12 Crime, Forensics, and Modern Science 164 Sarah Dauncey
13 The Police Novel 175 Peter Messent
14 Noir and the Psycho Thriller 187 Philip Simpson
15 True Crime 198 David Schmid
16 Gangs and Mobs 210 Jonathan Munby
17 Historical Crime and Detection 222 Ray B. Browne
18 Crime and the Spy Genre 233 David Seed
19 Crime and the Gothic 245 Catherine Spooner
20 Feminist Crime Fiction and Female Sleuths 258 Adrienne E. Gavin
21 African-American Detection and Crime Fiction 270 Frankie Bailey
22 Ethnic Postcolonial Crime and Detection (Anglophone) 283 Ed Christian
23 Crime Writing in Other Languages 296 Sue Neale
24 Postmodern and Metaphysical Detection 308 Patricia Merivale
25 Crime and Detective Literature for Young Readers 321 Christopher Routledge
26 Crime in Comics and the Graphic Novel 332 Arthur Fried
27 Criminal Investigation on Film 344 Philippa Gates
Part III Artists at Work 357
Fiction 359
28 William Godwin (1756–1836) 361 Philip Shaw
29 Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1849) 369 Maurice S. Lee
30 Wilkie Collins (1824–1889) 381 Andrew Mangham
31 Arthur Conan Doyle (1859–1930) 390 John A. Hodgson
32 Raymond Chandler (1888–1959) 403 Leroy Lad Panek
33 Agatha Christie (1890–1976) 415 Merja Makinen
34 James M. Cain (1892–1977) 427 William Marling
35 Dorothy L. Sayers (1893–1957) 438 Esme Miskimmin
36 Dashiell Hammett (1894–1961) 450 Jasmine Yong Hall
37 Jorge Luis Borges (1899–1986) 462 Alicia Borinsky
38 Chester Himes (1909–1984) 475 Stephen Soitos
39 David Goodis (1917–1967) 487 David Schmid
40 P. D. James (1920–) 495 Louise Harrington
41 Patricia Highsmith (1921–1995) 503 Bran Nicol
42 Elmore Leonard (1925–) 510 Charles J. Rzepka
43 Sara Paretsky (1947–) 523 Malcah Effron
44 Walter Mosley (1952–) 531 John Gruesser
Film 539
45 Alfred Hitchcock (1899–1980) 541 Nick Haeffner
46 Martin Scorsese (1942–) 553 Mark Desmond Nicholls
47 John Woo (1946–) 562 Karen Fang
Conclusion 570 Charles J. Rzepka and Lee Horsley
References 574
Index 599
What People are Saying About This
"Including a helpful introduction by Rzepka and conclusion by both editors, the volume is a welcome addition to the impressive "Blackwell Companion to Literature and Culture" series and to scholarship on crime and detective literature. Summing Up: Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty and professionals; general readers. " (Choice, 1July 2011)
"Whilst the editors admit that the collection is not entirely representative (there is no mention of Japanese manga, for instance, or any consideration of hybrids of crime and science fiction), this companion offers an encyclopaedic account of crime fiction and its generic cross-fertilisations, and is an essential guide for students and scholars alike." (Routledge ABES, 2011)
"This substantial and informative book covers a wide variety of themes within the genre and also a long time span from the eighteenth century to the present . . . It will give all aficionados of the genre hours of enjoyment. It is indeed a trusty companion that will entertain and add to our knowledge." (Reference Reviews, 2011)
"It will give all aficionados of the genre hours of enjoyment. It is indeed a trusty companion that will entertain and add to our knowledge." (Languages & Literature, 2011)
"Several of the contributors praise books and authors long out of print. Hopefully, this companion will encourage readers and librarians to hunt them down and enjoy." (Book News, 1 March 2011)
"In all, despite its shortcomings in terms of narratology and a few logical inconsistencies, Rzepka and Horsley's Companion to Crime Fiction offers a broad-ranging and well-argued introduction to this field of popular culture. Beginning students will certainly profit from its thematic diversity and wide historical reach." (Kult Online, 2011)
"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)