A companion to crime fiction /
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 fi...
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| Format: | Government Document Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Chichester, U.K. ; Malden, MA :
Wiley-Blackwell,
2010.
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| Series: | Blackwell companions to literature and culture ;
66. |
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Table of Contents:
- From The Newgate calendar to Sherlock Holmes / Heather Worthington
- From Sherlock Holmes to the present / Lee Horsley
- Criticism and theory / Heta Pyrhonen
- Crime and the mass media / Alain Silver, James Ursini
- Crime fiction and the literary canon / Joel Black
- The Newgate novel and the police casebook / Lauren Gillingham
- From sensation to the Strand / Christopher Pittard
- The "classical" model of the golden age / Susan Rowland
- Early American crime fiction : origins to urban gothic / Alexander Moudrov
- The "hard-boiled" genre / Andrew Pepper
- The pursuit of crime : characters in crime fiction / Carl Malmgren
- Crime, forensics, and modern science / Sarah Dauncey
- The police novel / Peter Messent
- Noir and the psycho-thriller / Philip Simpson
- True crime / David Schmid
- Gangs and mobs / Jonathan Munby
- Historical crime and detection / Ray B. Browne
- Crime and the spy genre / David Seed
- Crime and the gothic / Catherine Spooner
- Feminist crime fiction and female sleuths / Adrienne Gavin
- African-American detection and crime fiction / Frankie Bailey
- Ethnic postcolonial crime and detection (Anglophone) / Ed Christian
- Crime writing in other languages / Sue Neale
- Postmodern and metaphysical detection / Patricia Merivale
- Crime and detective literature for young readers / Christopher Routledge
- Crime in comics and the graphic novel / Arthur Fried
- Criminal investigation on film / Philippa Gates
- William Godwin (1756-1836) / Philip Shaw
- Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849) / Maurice Lee
- Wilkie Collins (1824-1889) / Andrew Mangham
- Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930) / John Hodgson
- Raymond Chandler (1888-1959) / Leroy Panek
- Agatha Christie (1890-1976) / Merja Makinen
- James M. Cain (1892-1977) / William Marling
- Dorothy L. Sayers (1893-1957) / Esme Miskimmin
- Dashiell Hammett (1894-1961) / Jasmine Hall
- Jorge Luis Borges (1899-1986) / Alicia Borinsky
- Chester Himes (1909-1984) / Stephen Soitos
- David Goodis (1917-1967) / David Schmid
- P.D. James (1920- ) / Louise Harrington
- Patricia Highsmith (1921-1995) / Bran Nicol
- Elmore Leonard (1925- ) / Charles J. Rzepka
- Sara Paretsky (1947- ) / Malcah Effron
- Walter Mosley (1952- ) / John Gruesser
- Alfred Hitchcock (1899-1980) / Nick Haeffner
- Martin Scorsese (1942- ) / Mark Desmond Nicholls
- John Woo (1946- ) / Karen Fang.