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A Companion to Crime Fiction / Edition 1
- ISBN-10:
- 1119675774
- ISBN-13:
- 9781119675778
- Pub. Date:
- 07/13/2020
- Publisher:
- Wiley
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: | 9781119675778 |
|---|---|
| Publisher: | Wiley |
| Publication date: | 07/13/2020 |
| Series: | Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture , #108 |
| Pages: | 656 |
| Product dimensions: | 6.70(w) x 9.60(h) x 1.10(d) |
About the Author
Lee Horsley is a retired Reader in Literature and Culture at Lancaster University, where she taught 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? 1Charles J. Rzepka
Part I History, Criticism, Culture 11
1 From The Newgate Calendar to Sherlock Holmes 13Heather Worthington
2 From Sherlock Holmes to the Present 28Lee Horsley
3 Criticism and Theory 43Heta Pyrhönen
4 Crime and the Mass Media 57Alain Silver and James Ursini
5 Crime Fiction and the Literary Canon 76Joel Black
Part II Genre of a Thousand Faces 91
6 The Newgate Novel and the Police Casebook 93Lauren Gillingham
7 From Sensation to the Strand 105Christopher Pittard
8 The “Classical” Model of the Golden Age 117Susan Rowland
9 Early American Crime Fiction: Origins to Urban Gothic 128Alexander Moudrov
10 The “Hard-boiled” Genre 140Andrew Pepper
11 The Pursuit of Crime: Characters in Crime Fiction 152Carl Malmgren
12 Crime, Forensics, and Modern Science 164Sarah Dauncey
13 The Police Novel 175Peter Messent
14 Noir and the Psycho Thriller 187Philip Simpson
15 True Crime 198David Schmid
16 Gangs and Mobs 210Jonathan Munby
17 Historical Crime and Detection 222Ray B. Browne
18 Crime and the Spy Genre 233David Seed
19 Crime and the Gothic 245Catherine Spooner
20 Feminist Crime Fiction and Female Sleuths 258Adrienne E. Gavin
21 African-American Detection and Crime Fiction 270Frankie Bailey
22 Ethnic Postcolonial Crime and Detection (Anglophone) 283Ed Christian
23 Crime Writing in Other Languages 296Sue Neale
24 Postmodern and Metaphysical Detection 308Patricia Merivale
25 Crime and Detective Literature for Young Readers 321Christopher Routledge
26 Crime in Comics and the Graphic Novel 332Arthur Fried
27 Criminal Investigation on Film 344Philippa Gates
Part III Artists at Work 357
Fiction 359
28 William Godwin (1756–1836) 361Philip Shaw
29 Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1849) 369Maurice S. Lee
30 Wilkie Collins (1824–1889) 381Andrew Mangham
31 Arthur Conan Doyle (1859–1930) 390John A. Hodgson
32 Raymond Chandler (1888–1959) 403Leroy Lad Panek
33 Agatha Christie (1890–1976) 415Merja Makinen
34 James M. Cain (1892–1977) 427William Marling
35 Dorothy L. Sayers (1893–1957) 438Esme Miskimmin
36 Dashiell Hammett (1894–1961) 450Jasmine Yong Hall
37 Jorge Luis Borges (1899–1986) 462Alicia Borinsky
38 Chester Himes (1909–1984) 475Stephen Soitos
39 David Goodis (1917–1967) 487David Schmid
40 P. D. James (1920–) 495Louise Harrington
41 Patricia Highsmith (1921–1995) 503Bran Nicol
42 Elmore Leonard (1925–) 510Charles J. Rzepka
43 Sara Paretsky (1947–) 523Malcah Effron
44 Walter Mosley (1952–) 531John Gruesser
Film 539
45 Alfred Hitchcock (1899–1980) 541Nick Haeffner
46 Martin Scorsese (1942–) 553Mark Desmond Nicholls
47 John Woo (1946–) 562Karen Fang
Conclusion 570Charles 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)