A Companion to Crime Fiction
A Companion to Crime Fiction

Author: Charles J. Rzepka

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2020-07-13

Total Pages: 648

ISBN-13: 1119675774

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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

The Cambridge Companion to Crime Fiction
The Cambridge Companion to Crime Fiction

Author: Martin Priestman

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2003-11-06

Total Pages: 291

ISBN-13: 1107494508

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The Cambridge Companion to Crime Fiction covers British and American crime fiction from the eighteenth century to the end of the twentieth. As well as discussing the detective fiction of writers like Arthur Conan Doyle, Agatha Christie and Raymond Chandler, it considers other kinds of fiction where crime plays a substantial part, such as the thriller and spy fiction. It also includes chapters on the treatment of crime in eighteenth-century literature, French and Victorian fiction, women and black detectives, crime on film and TV, police fiction and postmodernist uses of the detective form. The collection, by an international team of established specialists, offers students invaluable reference material including a chronology and guides to further reading. The volume aims to ensure that its readers will be grounded in the history of crime fiction and its critical reception.

The Routledge Companion to Crime Fiction
The Routledge Companion to Crime Fiction

Author: Janice Allan

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2020-04-07

Total Pages: 887

ISBN-13: 0429842422

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The Routledge Companion to Crime Fiction is a comprehensive introduction to crime fiction and crime fiction scholarship today. Across 45 original chapters, specialists in the field offer innovative approaches to the classics of the genre as well as ground-breaking mappings of emerging themes and trends. The volume is divided into three parts. Part I, Approaches, rearticulates the key theoretical questions posed by the crime genre. Part II, Devices, examines the textual characteristics of crime fiction. Part III, Interfaces investigates the complex ways in which crime fiction engages with the defining issues of its context – from policing and forensic science through war, migration and narcotics to digital media and the environment. Rigorously argued and engagingly written, the volume is indispensable both to students and scholars of crime fiction.

A Companion to Crime Fiction
A Companion to Crime Fiction

Author: Charles J. Rzepka

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2010-01-21

Total Pages: 648

ISBN-13: 9781444317923

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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

The Oxford Companion to Crime and Mystery Writing
The Oxford Companion to Crime and Mystery Writing

Author: Rosemary Herbert

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Published: 1999

Total Pages: 535

ISBN-13: 9780195072396

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"Entertaining and authoritative, this alphabetically arranged companion is an indispensable reference guide to crime and mystery writing. Unique in its biographical and critical treatment of major detective writers, it is a comprehensive digest to the gen

The Cambridge Companion to American Crime Fiction
The Cambridge Companion to American Crime Fiction

Author: Catherine Ross Nickerson

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2010-07-08

Total Pages: 207

ISBN-13: 0521136067

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This Companion examines the range of American crime fiction from execution sermons of the Colonial era to television programmes like The Sopranos.

The Cambridge Companion to World Crime Fiction
The Cambridge Companion to World Crime Fiction

Author: Jesper Gulddal

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2022-04-21

Total Pages: 331

ISBN-13: 1108605354

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Accessible yet comprehensive, this first systematic account of crime fiction across the globe offers a deep and thoroughly nuanced understanding of the genre's transnational history. Offering a lucid account of the major theoretical issues and comparative perspectives that constitute world crime fiction, this book introduces readers to the international crime fiction publishing industry, the translation and circulation of crime fiction, international crime fiction collections, the role of women in world crime fiction, and regional forms of crime fiction. It also illuminates the past and present of crime fiction in various supranational regions across the world, including East and South Asia, the Arab World, Sub-Saharan Africa, Europe and Scandinavia, as well as three spheres defined by a shared language, namely the Francophone, Lusophone, and Hispanic worlds. Thoroughly-researched and broad in scope, this book is as valuable for general readers as for undergraduate and postgraduate students of popular fiction and world literature.

Mary Elizabeth Braddon
Mary Elizabeth Braddon

Author: Anne-Marie Beller

Publisher: McFarland

Published: 2012-11-01

Total Pages: 205

ISBN-13: 0786436670

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An important figure in the development of crime fiction, Mary Elizabeth Braddon (1835-1915) wrote more than 80 novels, numerous plays, poems, essays and short stories, and edited two magazines during her 55-year literary career. Her bestselling Lady Audley's Secret secured her reputation as a leading "sensation novelist." Though critics called her work immoral, Braddon's novels influenced the detective fiction of the late Victorian period. With entries on all her published writing, characters, relationships and influences, and themes and contexts, as well as numerous illustrations, a career chronology, and a chronological and alphabetical listing of all of her works, this companion to Braddon's mystery fiction is the definitive reference on this provocative but overlooked writer.

The Detective's Companion in Crime Fiction
The Detective's Companion in Crime Fiction

Author: Lucy Andrew

Publisher: Springer Nature

Published: 2021-07-24

Total Pages: 314

ISBN-13: 3030749894

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This book aims to establish the position of the sidekick character in the crime and detective fiction literary genres. It re-evaluates the traditional view that the sidekick character in these genres is often overlooked as having a small, generic or singular role—either to act as the foil to the detective in order to accentuate their own abilities at solving crimes, or else to simply tell the story to the reader. Instead, essays in the collection explore the representations and functions of the detective’s sidekick across a range of forms and subgenres of crime fiction. By incorporating forms such as children’s detective fiction, comics and graphic novels and film and television alongside the more traditional fare of novels and short stories, this book aims to break down the boundaries that sometimes exist between these forms, using the sidekick as a defining thread to link them together into a wider conceptual argument that covers a broad range of crime narratives.

Crime Fiction
Crime Fiction

Author: Martin Priestman

Publisher: Writers and Their Work

Published: 2013

Total Pages: 105

ISBN-13: 0746312172

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This brief study surveys British and American crime fiction from the first detective stories of Edgar Allan Poe to the present day, exploring the ways in which Poe's basic form has intertwined with more suspense-driven elements to produce fiction featuring spies, private-eyes and serial killers, as well as the classic whodunnit.