Crime Fiction, 1800-2000

This title is an analytic survey of crime fiction from its origins in the 19th century to the most contemporary developments. Stephen Knight explains how and why the various forms of the genre evolved, explores major authors and movements, and argues that the genre as a whole has three parts.

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"Stephen Knight's book is an excellent narrative introduction to crime and detective fiction in the last two hundred years, providing a wealth of detail which will have a very strong appeal to students and which will fill a major gap in the market."--Clive Bloom, Middlesex University<br>

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STEPHEN KNIGHT is Professor of English Literature at Cardiff University. He is the author of Form and Ideology in Crime Fiction, also published by Palgrave Macmillan.

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Acknowledgements - Introduction - PART 1: DETECTION - Before Detection - Enter the Detective - Realistic Police - Edgar Allen Poe's Initiative - Plain English Detection - Sensation - Gaboriau and the 1870s-1880s - Detective Apotheosis: Sherlock Holmes - PART 2: DEATH - After Sherlock Holmes - The Clue-Puzzle Forms - The American Version - PART 3: DIVERSITY - Continuities with Change - Police Procedures - Diversifying the Viewpoint: Gender - Diversifying the Viewpoint: Race - Postmodern Crime Fiction - Generic Violence - Chronology of Crime Fiction - References - Index

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