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111 produkter
Deviance in Contemporary Crime Fiction
Av C. Gregoriou
Inbunden, 2007
635 kr
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This book explores the three aspects of deviance that contemporary crime fiction manipulates: linguistic, social, and generic. Gregoriou conducts case studies into crime series by James Patterson, Michael Connelly and Patricia Cornwell, and investigates the way in which these novelists …
Masquerade, Crime and Fiction
Criminal Deceptions
Av L. Peach
Inbunden, 2006
635 kr
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This study of crime and masquerade in fiction focuses upon the criminal as a 'performer'. Through stimulating discussions of a wide range of criminal types, Peach argues for the importance of novels that have been neglected. The book integrates incisive literary and cultural criticism with …
100 British Crime Writers
Inbunden, 2020
886 kr
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100 British Crime Writers explores a history of British crime writing between 1855 and 2015 through 100 writers, detailing their lives and significant writing and exploring their contributions to the genre. Divided into four sections: ‘The Victorians, Edwardians, and World War One, 1855-1918’; ‘The …
Noir Thriller
Av Lee Horsley
Häftad, 2001
1261 kr
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What is literary noir? How do British and American noir thrillers relate to their historical contexts? In considering such questions, this study ranges over hundreds of novels, analysing the politics and poetics of noir from the hard-boiled fiction of Hammett, Chandler and Cain to the exciting …
Women Writers and Detectives in Nineteenth-Century Crime Fiction
The Mothers of the Mystery Genre
Av L. Sussex
Inbunden, 2010
1136 kr
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This book is a study of the 'mothers' of the mystery genre. Traditionally the invention of crime writing has been ascribed to Poe, Wilkie Collins and Conan Doyle, but they had formidable women rivals, whose work has been until recently largely forgotten. The purpose of this book is to 'cherchez les …
Masculinity, Crime and Self-Defence in Victorian Literature
Duelling with Danger
Av E. Godfrey
Inbunden, 2010
635 kr
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Now in paperback, this book considers crime fighting from the perspective of the civilian city-goer, from the mid-Victorian garotting panics to 1914. It charts the shift from the use of body armour to the adoption of exotic martial arts through the works of popular playwrights and novelists, …
Narratives of Enclosure in Detective Fiction
The Locked Room Mystery
Av M. Cook
Inbunden, 2011
1073 kr
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The locked room mystery is one of the iconic creations of popular fiction. Michael Cook's critical study reveals how this archetypal form of the puzzle story has had a significant effect in shaping the immensely popular genre of detective fiction. The book includes analysis of texts from Poe to the …
Femininity, Crime and Self-Defence in Victorian Literature and Society
From Dagger-Fans to Suffragettes
Av E. Godfrey
Inbunden, 2012
635 kr
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This exploration into the development of women's self-defence from 1850 to 1914 features major writers, including H.G. Wells, Elizabeth Robins and Richard Marsh, and encompasses an unusually wide-ranging number of subjects from hatpin crimes to the development of martial arts for women.
Death in a Cold Climate
A Guide to Scandinavian Crime Fiction
Av B. Forshaw
Inbunden, 2012
635 kr
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Barry Forshaw, the UK's principal crime fiction expert, presents a celebration and analysis of the Scandinavian crime genre, from Sjöwall and Wahlöö's Martin Beck series through Henning Mankell's Wallander to Stieg Larsson's demolition of the Swedish Social Democratic ideal in the publishing …
British Crime Film
Subverting the Social Order
Inbunden, 2012
586 kr
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Presenting a social history of British crime film, this book focuses on the strategies used in order to address more radical notions surrounding class, politics, sex, delinquency, violence and censorship. Spanning post-war crime cinema to present-day "Mockney" productions, it contextualizes the …
Death in a Cold Climate
A Guide to Scandinavian Crime Fiction
Av B. Forshaw
Häftad, 2012
635 kr
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Barry Forshaw, the UK's principal crime fiction expert, presents a celebration and analysis of the Scandinavian crime genre, from Sjöwall and Wahlöö's Martin Beck series through Henning Mankell's Wallander to Stieg Larsson's demolition of the Swedish Social Democratic ideal in the publishing …
Late Victorian Crime Fiction in the Shadows of Sherlock
Av C. Clarke
Inbunden, 2014
635 kr
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This book investigates the development of crime fiction in the 1880s and 1890s, challenging studies of late-Victorian crime fiction which have given undue prominence to a handful of key figures and have offered an over-simplified analytical framework, thereby overlooking the generic, moral, and …
Counter-History of Crime Fiction
Supernatural, Gothic, Sensational
Inbunden, 2007
1262 kr
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This book takes a look at the evolution of crime fiction. Considering 'criminography' as a system of inter-related sub-genres, it explores the connections between modes of literature such as revenge tragedies, the gothic and anarchist fiction, while taking into account the influence of …
Agatha Christie: Power and Illusion
Av R.A. York
Inbunden, 2007
1011 kr
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This study shows how she sought to reconcile her attachment to the Victorian past with her recognition of a new society that undermined established order and in doing so gave more opportunities to women, confused class-boundaries, extended tolerance, allowed the cult of pleasure and self-assertion …
100 American Crime Writers
Av S. Powell
Inbunden, 2012
1262 kr
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100 American Crime Writers features discussion and analysis of the lives of crime writers and their key works, examining the developments in American crime writing from the Golden Age to hardboiled detective fiction. This study is essential to scholars and an ideal introduction to crime fiction for …
French and American Noir
Dark Crossings
Av Alistair Rolls, Deborah Walker
Inbunden, 2009
586 kr
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A longstanding misconception surrounding the term French noir suggests that the post-war French thriller and film noir were a development of, or response to, a pre-existing American tradition. This book challenges this misconception, examining the complexity of this trans-Atlantic exchange and …
Hollywood's Detectives
Crime Series in the 1930s and 1940s from the Whodunnit to Hard-boiled Noir
Av F. Mason, Clive Bloom
Inbunden, 2011
586 kr
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The study of Hollywood detectives has often overlooked the B-Movie mystery series in favour of hard-boiled film. Hollywood's Detectives redresses this oversight by examining key detective series of the 1930s and 1940s to explore their contributions to the detective genre.
Counter-History of Crime Fiction
Supernatural, Gothic, Sensational
Häftad, 2007
1262 kr
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This book takes a look at the evolution of crime fiction. Considering 'criminography' as a system of inter-related sub-genres, it explores the connections between modes of literature such as revenge tragedies, the gothic and anarchist fiction, while taking into account the influence of …
Deviance in Contemporary Crime Fiction
Av C. Gregoriou
Häftad, 2007
635 kr
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This book explores the three aspects of deviance that contemporary crime fiction manipulates: linguistic, social, and generic. Gregoriou conducts case studies into crime series by James Patterson, Michael Connelly and Patricia Cornwell, and investigates the way in which these novelists …
From Agatha Christie to Ruth Rendell
British Women Writers in Detective and Crime Fiction
Av S. Rowland
Inbunden, 2000
1262 kr
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From Agatha Christie to Ruth Rendell is the first book to consider seriously the hugely popular and influential works of Agatha Christie, Dorothy L.Sayers, Margery Allingham, Ngaio Marsh, P.D. James and Ruth Rendell/Barbara Vine. Providing studies of forty-two key novels, this volume introduces …
Contemporary American Crime Fiction
Inbunden, 2001
1262 kr
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This highly accessible, lively and informative study gives a clear and comprehensive overview of recent trends in American crime fiction. Building on a discussion of the immediate predecessors, Bertens and D'haen focus on the work of popular and award-winning authors of the last fifteen years. …
From Agatha Christie to Ruth Rendell
British Women Writers in Detective and Crime Fiction
Av S. Rowland
Häftad, 2000
1262 kr
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From Agatha Christie to Ruth Rendell is the first book to consider seriously the hugely popular and influential works of Agatha Christie, Dorothy L.Sayers, Margery Allingham, Ngaio Marsh, P.D. James and Ruth Rendell/Barbara Vine. Providing studies of forty-two key novels, this volume introduces …
Contemporary American Crime Fiction
Häftad, 2001
1262 kr
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This highly accessible, lively and informative study gives a clear and comprehensive overview of recent trends in American crime fiction. Building on a discussion of the immediate predecessors, Bertens and D'haen focus on the work of popular and award-winning authors of the last fifteen years. …
American Gangster Cinema
From "Little Caesar" to "Pulp Fiction"
Av F. Mason
Häftad, 2002
770 kr
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Much analysis of gangster movies has been based upon a study of the gangster as a malign figuration of the American Dream, originally set in the era of the Depression. This text extends previous analysis of the genre by examining the evolution of gangster movies from the 1930s to the contemporary …
Noir Thriller
Av Lee Horsley
Inbunden, 2001
1262 kr
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What is literary noir? How do British and American noir thrillers relate to their historical contexts? In considering such questions, this study ranges over hundreds of novels, analysing the politics and poetics of noir from the hard-boiled fiction of Hammett, Chandler and Cain to the exciting …
Postcolonial Detective
Av E. Christian
Inbunden, 2001
1262 kr
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What happens to detective fiction when the detective is 'post-colonial', a marginalized native or settler in a country recovering from colonialism? Post-colonial detection is an exciting hybrid of western-influenced police methods and plot conventions and indigenous cultural insights and wisdom in …
Crime, Fear and the Law in True Crime Stories
Inbunden, 2001
1397 kr
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Why do true crime stories exert such popular fascination? What do they have to say about the fear of crime in the present moment? This book examines the historical origins and development of true crime and its evolution into distinctive contemporary forms. Embracing a range of non-fiction accounts …
American Thriller
Generic Innovation and Social Change in the 1970s
Av P. Cobley
Inbunden, 2000
635 kr
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What is the American thriller? Has it developed over time? What was it like in the past? This is a book about thrillers and gaining knowledge of what American thrillers were like in a specific period - the 1970s. Analysing seventies texts about crime, police, detectives, corruption, paranoia and …
American Thriller
Generic Innovation and Social Change in the 1970s
Av P. Cobley
Häftad, 2000
635 kr
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What is the American thriller? Has it developed over time? What was it like in the past? This is a book about thrillers and gaining knowledge of what American thrillers were like in a specific period - the 1970s. Analysing seventies texts about crime, police, detectives, corruption, paranoia and …
British Crime Film
Subverting the Social Order
Häftad, 2012
586 kr
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Presenting a social history of British crime film, this book focuses on the strategies used in order to address more radical notions surrounding class, politics, sex, delinquency, violence and censorship. Spanning post-war crime cinema to present-day "Mockney" productions, it contextualizes the …
