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The crime fiction handbook / Peter Messent.
- Title
- The crime fiction handbook / Peter Messent.
- Author
- Messent, Peter, 1946-
- Publication
- Chichester, West Sussex, UK ; Malden, MA : Wiley-Blackwell, 2013.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Request in advance | PN3448.D4 M435 2013 | Off-site |
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- Description
- x, 262 p.; 23 cm.
- Summary
- 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.
- Series Statement
- Blackwell literature handbooks
- Uniform Title
- Blackwell literature handbooks.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Handboeken (vorm)
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Introduction -- The politics, main forms, and key concerns of crime fiction. The politics of crime fiction; The types of crime fiction; Classical detective fiction; Hard-boiled detective fiction; The police novel; Transgressor fictions; Vision, supervision, and the city; Crime and the body; Gender matters; Representations of race -- Discussions of individual texts. Edgar Allan Poe: "The murders in the Rue Morgue"; Arthur Conan Doyle : The sign of four; Agatha Christie : The murder of Roger Aykroyd; Dashiell Hammett : The Maltese falcon; Raymond Chandler : The big sleep; James M. Cain : Double indemnity; Patricia Highsmith : The talented Mr. Ripley; Chester Himes : Cotton comes to Harlem; Maj Sjöwall and Per Wahlöö : The laughing policeman; James Ellroy : The black dahlia; Thomas Harris : The silence of the lambs; Patricia Cornwell : Unnatural exposure; Ian Rankin : The naming of the dead; Stieg Larsson : The girl with the dragon tattoo.
- ISBN
- 9780470657034 (cloth)
- 0470657030 (cloth)
- 9780470657041 (pbk.)
- 0470657049 (pbk.)
- LCCN
- ^^2012008956
- 40021728406
- OCLC
- 780288824
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library