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- Description
- 1 online resource.
- Series Statement
- Routledge literature handbooks
- Uniform Title
- Routledge literature handbooks.
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Reproduction (note)
- Source of Description (note)
- Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on November 02, 2023).
- Contents
- Placing crime fiction and ecology : an introduction / Nathan Ashman -- Affect in Peter May's Lewis and Harris novels / Terry Gifford -- "The Goshawk did it" : nature writing and detection in Ann Cleeves' The Crow Trap / Ian Kenny and Irina Souch -- The Norfolk saltmarsh : Elly Griffiths and place in contemporary crime fiction / Nicola Bishop -- The big deep : the ecological turn in Nordic noir / Michael Hinds and Tomas Buitendijk -- Aesthetic imaginaries of nature and nationhood in the works of Arnaldur Indriðason / Priscilla Jolly -- Unsettlement, climate and rural/urban place-making in Australian crime fiction / Rachel Fetherston -- Pest control : "wasp season" in Agatha Christie's "The Blue Geranium" / Alicia Carroll -- Green machinations : unknown poison, ecology and female criminal agency in L.T. Meade's The Sorceress of the Strand / Caitlin Anderson -- "Scorched earth" : transgressive bodies, historic criminality, and colonial recursions in Louise Erdrich's The Round House / Malinda Hackett -- "Animals taking revenge" : imagining murder as an ecological encounter in Olga Tokarczuk's Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead / Andrew Yallop -- Protecting the rhinos and our young democracy : nature and the state in post-apartheid South African crime fiction / Colette Guldimann -- "Look at Mother Nature on the run" : 'the troubles' in Adrian McKinty's Sean Duffy novels / Bill Phillips -- Environmental crime and the dialectics of slow and divine violence in Poso Wells by Gabriela Alemán / Rafael Andúgar -- "Holmes, that's some Santa Claus shit" : reading Lydia Millet's A Children's Bible as ecological crime fiction / MaKenzie Hope Munson and Kevin Andrew Spicer -- John D. MacDonald and the advent of ecocrime fiction / Kristopher Mecholsky -- Choking to death : true crime and the great smog / Anita Lam -- "Every crime has its peculiar odor" : detection, deodorization and intoxication / Hsuan Hsu -- In Paolo Bacigalupi's environmental science fiction, immoral and criminal are not synonymous / Patrick D. Murphy -- From crime scene to Anthropocene in 2010s Argentinian narrative / David Conlon -- Ecologemes in contemporary Australian crime fiction : the case of outback noir / Katrin Althans -- Revising crime in fiction : an environmental invitation / Marta Puxan-Oliva -- Criminal violences : The continuum of settler colonialism and climate crisis in recent Indigenous fiction / Rebecca Tillett -- Environmental racism and post-Katrina crime fiction / Ruth Hawthorn -- Seeking environmental justice : muti in South African crime fiction / Felicity Hand -- A form of wild justice : Carl Hiaasen's deployment of carnivalesque environmental ethics and moral technology / Anna Kirsch -- Environmental concerns in Carl Hiaasen's crime fiction / David Geherin -- New energy, old crime : forms of individual and collective responsibility in Nordic crimes series / Leonardo Nolé -- "It tasted like gasoline" : the American roman noir and the oil encounter in Elliott Chaze's Black Wings Has My Angel (1953) / Nathan Ashman -- Oil and the hardboiled : petromobility, settler colonialism and the legacy of the American century in Thomas King's Cold Skies / Alec Follett -- "The whole world...was a gigantic prison" : climate crisis and carceral capitalism in Rachel Kushner's The Mars Room / Megan Cole -- Reading Donna Leon as Mediterranean noir / Valerie McGuire -- The circulation of global environmental concerns : local and international perspectives in the Verdenero collection and Donna Leon's crime fiction / Aina Vidal-Pérez -- Magic seeds and the living dead : investigating transnational eco-crimes in Rajat Chaudhuri's The Butterfly Effect / Damini Ray.
- ISBN
- 9781003091912
- 1003091911
- 9781000984453
- 1000984451
- 9781000984514
- 1000984516
- LCCN
- 2023023047
- 10.4324/9781003091912
- OCLC
- 2023023047
- Title
The Routledge handbook of crime fiction and ecology / edited by Nathan Ashman.
- Publisher
New York, NY : Routledge, 2024.
- Copyright Date
©2024
- Type of Content
text
- Type of Medium
computer
- Type of Carrier
online resource
- Series
Routledge literature handbooks
Routledge literature handbooks.
- Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Reproduction
Electronic reproduction. London Available via World Wide Web.
- Biography
Nathan Ashman is Lecturer in Crime Writing at the University of East Anglia and the author of James Ellroy and Voyeur Fiction (2018). His research spans the fields of crime fiction, contemporary American fiction, and ecocriticism, with a particular specialism in the works of James Ellroy. He has published articles on numerous writers including Ross Macdonald, E.C. Bentley, Don DeLillo,Megan Abbott and Walter Mosley. His second book, James Sallis: A Companion to the Mystery Fiction, is forthcoming.
- Note
Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on November 02, 2023).
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- Added Author
Ashman, Nathan, editor.
Taylor & Francis
- Other Form:
Print version: Routledge handbook of crime fiction and ecology New York, NY : Routledge, 2024 9780367550851 (DLC) 2023023046
- Other Standard Identifier
10.4324/9781003091912 doi