A companion to crime fiction
By: edited by Charles J. Rzepka and Lee Horsley.
Contributors: Rzepka, Charles J.; Horsley, Lee, 1944-
Series: Blackwell companions to literature and culture
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell; Wiley-Interscience
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Malden, MA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 650
ISBN-13: 9781405167659
Subjects: Detective and mystery stories -- History and criticism; Crime in literature; Detective and mystery films -- History and criticism
Description: A guide to the popular genre, 'A Companion to Crime Fiction' traces its origins in the 18th century to the present day. It brings together a series of 47 original essays from some of the world's leading authorities.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: From the Newgate calendar to Sherlock Holmes / Heather Worthington; title: From Sherlock Holmes to the present / Lee Horsley; title: Criticism and theory / Heta Pyrhonen; title: Crime and the mass media / Alain Silver, James Ursini; title: Crime fiction and the literary canon / Joel Black; title: The Newgate novel and the police casebook / Lauren Gillingham; title: From sensation to the Strand / Christopher Pittard; title: The "classical" model of the golden age / Susan Rowland; title: Early American crime fiction : origins to urban gothic / Alexander Moudrov; title: The "hard-boiled" genre / Andrew Pepper; title: The pursuit of crime : characters in crime fiction / Carl Malmgren; title: Crime, forensics, and modern science / Sarah Dauncey; title: The police novel / Peter Messent; title: Noir and the psycho-thriller / Philip Simpson; title: True crime / David Schmid; title: Gangs and mobs / Jonathan Munby; title: Historical crime and detection / Ray B. Browne; title: Crime and the spy genre / David Seed; title: Crime and the gothic / Catherine Spooner; title: Feminist crime fiction and female sleuths / Adrienne Gavin; title: African-American detection and crime fiction / Frankie Bailey; title: Ethnic postcolonial crime and detection (Anglophone) / Ed Christian; title: Crime writing in other languages / Sue Neale; title: Postmodern and metaphysical detection / Patricia Merivale; title: Crime and detective literature for young readers / Christopher Routledge; title: Crime in comics and the graphic novel / Arthur Fried; title: Criminal investigation on film / Philippa Gates; title: William Godwin (1756-1836) / Philip Shaw; title: Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849) / Maurice Lee; title: Wilkie Collins (1824-1889) / Andrew Mangham; title: Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930) / John Hodgson; title: Raymond Chandler (1888-1959) / Leroy Panek; title: Agatha Christie (1890-1976) / Merja Makinen; title: James M. Cain (1892-1977) / William Marling; title: Dorothy L. Sayers (1893-1957) / Esme Miskimmin; title: Dashiell Hammett (1894-1961) / Jasmine Hall; title: Jorge Luis Borges (1899-1986) / Alicia Borinsky; title: Chester Himes (1909-1984) / Stephen Soitos; title: David Goodis (1917-1967) / David Schmid; title: P.D. James (1920- ) / Louise Harrington; title: Patricia Highsmith (1921-1995) / Bran Nicol; title: Elmore Leonard (1925- ) / Charles J. Rzepka; title: Sara Paretsky (1947- ) / Malcah Effron; title: Walter Mosley (1952- ) / John Gruesser; title: Alfred Hitchcock (1899-1980) / Nick Haeffner; title: Martin Scorsese (1942- ) / Mark Desmond Nicholls; title: John Woo (1946- ) / Karen Fang.