Messent The Crime Fiction Handbook

1. Auflage 2012
ISBN: 978-1-118-32654-1
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 272 Seiten, E-Book

Reihe: Blackwell Literature Handbooks

The Crime Fiction Handbook presents a comprehensiveintroduction to the origins, development, and cultural significanceof the crime fiction genre, focusing mainly on American British,and Scandinavian texts.
* Provides an accessible and well-written introduction to thegenre of crime fiction
* Moves with ease between a general overview of the genre anduseful theoretical approaches
* Includes a close analysis of the key texts in the crime fictiontradition
* Identifies what makes crime fiction of such cultural importanceand illuminates the social and political anxieties at itsheart.
* Shows the similarities and differences between British,American, and Scandinavian crime fiction traditions

Autoren/Hrsg.

Messent, Peter

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments vii
Introductory Note ix
Part 1 Introduction 1
Part 2 The Politics, Main Forms, and Key Concerns of CrimeFiction 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 SjEURowall and Per WahlEURoEURo: The LaughingPoliceman (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

Über Autor(innen)

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