Crime Fiction, 1800-2000
Crime Fiction, 1800-2000

Author: Stephen Knight

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Published: 2004-01-17

Total Pages: 240

ISBN-13: 9780333791790

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Stephen Knight's book is a full analytic survey of crime fiction from its origins in the nineteenth century to the most recent developments. Knight explains how and why the various forms of the genre evolved, explores major authors and movements, and argues that the genre as a whole has three parts: the early development of Detection, the growing emphasis on Death, and the modern celebration of Diversity. The best criticism is cited and the book provides full references and a helpful chronology, making this a highly readable complete study of a popular and still relatively underexamined genre.

Crime Fiction Since 1800
Crime Fiction Since 1800

Author: Stephen Knight

Publisher: Red Globe Press

Published: 2010-04-09

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 0230580742

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Previous edition: published as Crime fiction, 1800-2000. 2004.

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: 316

ISBN-13: 9780521008716

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This Companion 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 the 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.

Crime Fiction
Crime Fiction

Author: John Scaggs

Publisher: Psychology Press

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 192

ISBN-13: 9780415318259

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Provides a lively introduction to what is both a wide-ranging and hugely popular literary genre. Accessible and clear, this comprehensive overview is the essential guide for all those studying crime fiction.

The Crime Fiction Handbook
The Crime Fiction Handbook

Author: Peter Messent

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2012-08-30

Total Pages: 272

ISBN-13: 1118326547

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The Crime Fiction Handbook presents a comprehensive introduction to the origins, development, and cultural significance of the crime fiction genre, focusing mainly on American British, and Scandinavian texts. Provides an accessible and well-written introduction to the genre of crime fiction Moves with ease between a general overview of the genre and useful theoretical approaches Includes a close analysis of the key texts in the crime fiction tradition Identifies what makes crime fiction of such cultural importance and illuminates the social and political anxieties at its heart. Shows the similarities and differences between British, American, and Scandinavian crime fiction traditions

Late Victorian Crime Fiction in the Shadows of Sherlock
Late Victorian Crime Fiction in the Shadows of Sherlock

Author: C. Clarke

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2014-09-26

Total Pages: 196

ISBN-13: 0230390544

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This book investigates the development of crime fiction in the 1880s and 1890s, challenging studies of late-Victorian crime fiction which have given undue prominence to a handful of key figures and have offered an over-simplified analytical framework, thereby overlooking the generic, moral, and formal complexities of the nascent genre.

A Counter-History of Crime Fiction
A Counter-History of Crime Fiction

Author: Maurizio Ascari

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2007-09-05

Total Pages: 236

ISBN-13: 0230234534

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This book takes a look at the evolution of crime fiction. Considering 'criminography' as a system of inter-related sub-genres, it explores the connections between modes of literature such as revenge tragedies, the gothic and anarchist fiction, while taking into account the influence of pseudo-sciences such as mesmerism and criminal anthropology.

A Companion to Twentieth-Century United States Fiction
A Companion to Twentieth-Century United States Fiction

Author: David Seed

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2010-01-21

Total Pages: 608

ISBN-13: 9781444310115

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Through a wide-ranging series of essays and relevant readings, A Companion to Twentieth-Century United States Fiction presents an overview of American fiction published since the conclusion of the First World War. Features a wide-ranging series of essays by American, British, and European specialists in a variety of literary fields Written in an approachable and accessible style Covers both classic literary figures and contemporary novelists Provides extensive suggestions for further reading at the end of each essay

Crime Fiction as World Literature
Crime Fiction as World Literature

Author: Louise Nilsson

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA

Published: 2017-02-23

Total Pages: 313

ISBN-13: 1501319345

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While crime fiction is one of the most widespread of all literary genres, this is the first book to treat it in its full global is the first book to treat crime fiction in its full global and plurilingual dimensions, taking the genre seriously as a participant in the international sphere of world literature. In a wide-ranging panorama of the genre, twenty critics discuss crime fiction from Bulgaria, China, Israel, Mexico, Scandinavia, Kenya, Catalonia, and Tibet, among other locales. By bringing crime fiction into the sphere of world literature, Crime Fiction as World Literature gives new insights not only into the genre itself but also into the transnational flow of literature in the globalized mediascape of contemporary popular culture.