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Author: Catherine Ross Nickerson
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2010-07-08
Total Pages: 207
ISBN-13: 0521136067
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis Companion examines the range of American crime fiction from execution sermons of the Colonial era to television programmes like The Sopranos.
Author: Martin Priestman
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2003-11-06
Total Pages: 291
ISBN-13: 1107494508
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe 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.
Author: Jesper Gulddal
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2022-04-21
Total Pages: 331
ISBN-13: 1108605354
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAccessible 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.
Author: David Glover
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2012-04-05
Total Pages: 245
ISBN-13: 0521513375
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn overview of popular literature from the early nineteenth century to the present day from a historical and comparative perspective.
Author: Kevin R. McNamara
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2010-05-06
Total Pages: 239
ISBN-13: 0521514703
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDiverse, vibrant, and challenging as the city itself, this Companion is the definitive guide to LA in literature.
Author: Leonard Cassuto
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2004-02-12
Total Pages: 268
ISBN-13: 9780521894654
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe specially commissioned essays collected in this volume establish new parameters for both scholarly and classroom discussion of Dreiser. This Companion provides fresh perspectives on the frequently read classics, Sister Carrie and An American Tragedy, as well as on topics of perennial interest, such as Dreiser's representation of the city and his prose style. The volume investigates topics such as his representation of masculinity and femininity, and his treatment of ethnicity. It is the most comprehensive introduction to Dreiser's work available.
Author: Leonard Cassuto
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 2009
Total Pages: 341
ISBN-13: 0231126905
DOWNLOAD EBOOKLeonard Cassuto's cultural history of the hard-boiled crime genre recovers the fascinating link between tough guys and sensitive women
Author: Rosemary Herbert
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 1999
Total Pages: 535
ISBN-13: 9780195072396
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"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
Author: Edward James
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2012-01-26
Total Pages: 297
ISBN-13: 1107493730
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFantasy is a creation of the Enlightenment, and the recognition that excitement and wonder can be found in imagining impossible things. From the ghost stories of the Gothic to the zombies and vampires of twenty-first-century popular literature, from Mrs Radcliffe to Ms Rowling, the fantastic has been popular with readers. Since Tolkien and his many imitators, however, it has become a major publishing phenomenon. In this volume, critics and authors of fantasy look at its history since the Enlightenment, introduce readers to some of the different codes for the reading and understanding of fantasy, and examine some of the many varieties and subgenres of fantasy; from magical realism at the more literary end of the genre, to paranormal romance at the more popular end. The book is edited by the same pair who produced The Cambridge Companion to Science Fiction (winner of a Hugo Award in 2005).
Author: Leonard Cassuto
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2011-03-24
Total Pages: 1271
ISBN-13: 0521899079
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn authoritative and lively account of the development of the genre, by leading experts in the field.
