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

Relating Rape and Murder
Relating Rape and Murder

Author: Jane Monckton-Smith

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2010-08-16

Total Pages: 202

ISBN-13: 0230290663

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This book is about relating the concepts of rape and murder in both senses of the term; that is the way rape and murder are linked and related and also how stories of rape and murder are related or told.

Wilkie Collins and Copyright
Wilkie Collins and Copyright

Author: Sundeep Bisla

Publisher:

Published: 2013

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780814212356

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Uncovers the paradox that places Wilkie Collins' displeasure with copyright violations in tension with his budding understanding of the nature of the "iterability" of the word.