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The Crime Fiction Handbook Peter Messent

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

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Summing Up: Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty. (Choice, 1 September 2013) Messent's readings are always perceptive and his book offers an excellent introduction to a diverse genre. (The Guardian, 8 March 2013) Those interested in the more arcane byways of crime fiction will find this concise but intelligent volume invaluable, with its academic (but accessible) analyses of some of the key texts in the genre. What is perhaps the most valuable aspect of the book is the fact that Peter Messent has managed to unearth new insights into this much written-about subject no easy task in the 21st century, when a considerable amount of analysis of the field (including, in a modest way, by this writer) is so endemic. (Crime Time, 27 February 2013) "...at a stroke this volume joins the library of key texts in the field." ( Crime Time, February 2013) "... a good introduction to a prolific genre." ( Times Literary Supplement, March 2013)

À propos de Peter Messent

Peter Messent is Emeritus Professor of Modern American Literature at the University of Nottingham. A specialist on Mark Twain, Ernest Hemingway, and crime fiction, he has published numerous books and articles on a variety of nineteenth- and twentieth-century American writers. His most recent publication is the prize-winning book Mark Twain and Male Friendship (2009).

Sommaire

Acknowledgments vii Introductory Note ix Part 1 Introduction 1 Part 2 The Politics, Main Forms, and Key Concerns of Crime Fiction 9 The Politics of Crime Fiction 11 The Types of Crime Fiction 27 Classical Detective Fiction 27 Hard-Boiled Detective Fiction 34 The Police Novel 41 Transgressor Narratives 50 Vision, Supervision, and the City 60 Crime and the Body 75 Gender Matters 85 Representations of Race 96 Part 3 Some KeyWorks in Crime Fiction 107 Edgar Allan Poe: The Murders in the Rue Morgue (1841) 109 Arthur Conan Doyle: The Sign of Four (1890) 116 Agatha Christie: The Murder of Roger Ackroyd (1926) 127 Dashiell Hammett: The Maltese Falcon (1930) 136 Raymond Chandler: The Big Sleep (1939) 143 James M. Cain: Double Indemnity (1936) 151 Patricia Highsmith: The Talented Mr. Ripley (1955) 159 Chester Himes: Cotton Comes to Harlem (1965) 167 Maj Sj owall and Per Wahl o o: The Laughing Policeman (1968) 176 James Ellroy: The Black Dahlia (1987) 187 Thomas Harris: The Silence of the Lambs (1988) 198 Patricia Cornwell: Unnatural Exposure (1997) 208 Ian Rankin: The Naming of the Dead (2006) 218 Stieg Larsson: The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2005) 227 End Note 241 References 243 Index 253

Informations supplémentaires

Sku

GOR005477274

ISBN 13

9780470657041

ISBN 10

0470657049

Titre

The Crime Fiction Handbook Peter Messent

Auteur

Peter Messent

Série

Wiley Blackwell Literature Handbooks

État

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Broché

Éditeur

John Wiley & Sons Inc

Année de publication

2012-10-26

Nombre de pages

272

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