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A Companion to Crime Fiction

Authors: Charles J. Rzepka, Lee Horsley Publisher: Wiley Publication date: 2010 Publication language: Angielski Number of pages: 649 Publication formats: EAN: 9781444317923 ISBN: 9781444317923 Category: Literature & literary studies Publisher's index: - Bibliographic note: -

Description

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

TOC

  • A COMPANION TO CRIME FICTION 2
    • Contents 8
    • List of Figures 12
    • Notes on Contributors 14
    • Introduction: What Is Crime Fiction? 22
    • Part I: History, Criticism, Culture 32
      • 1: From The Newgate Calendar to Sherlock Holmes 34
      • 2: From Sherlock Holmes to the Present 49
      • 3: Criticism and Theory 64
      • 4: Crime and the Mass Media 78
      • 5: Crime Fiction and the Literary Canon 97
    • Part II: Genre of a Thousand Faces 112
      • 6: The Newgate Novel and the Police Casebook 114
      • 7: From Sensation to the Strand 126
      • 8: The “Classical” Model of the Golden Age 138
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