A Companion to Crime Fiction

A Companion to Crime Fiction presents the definitive guide to this popular genre from its origins in the eighteenth century to the present dayA 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

Charles Rzepka is Professor of English at Boston University, where he teaches and writes on British Romanticism, popular culture, and detective and crime fiction. His publications include The Self as Mind (1986), Sacramental Commodities (1995), Detective Fiction (2005), and Essays, Inventions, Interventions (2010).

Lee Horsley is Reader in Literature and Culture at Lancaster University, where she teaches two specialist crime courses. Her publications include Political Fiction and the Historical Imagination (1990), Fictions of Power in English Literature 1900-1950 (1995) Twentieth-Century Crime Fiction (2005), and an expanded paperback edition of the 2001 publication The Noir Thriller (2009).

Introduction: What is Crime Fiction?
History, Criticism, Culture
From the Newgate Calendar to Sherlock Holmes
From Sherlock Holmes to the Present
Criticism and Theory -
Crime and the Mass Media
Crime Fiction and the Literary Canon
Genre of a Thousand Faces
The Newgate Novel and the Police Casebook - Lauren Gillingham
From Sensation to The Strand
The "Classical" Model of the Golden Age
Early American Crime Fiction: Origins to Urban Gothic
The "Hard-Boiled" Genre
The Pursuit of Crime: Characters in Crime Fiction
Crime, Forensics, and Modern Science
Police Novel
Noir and the Psycho-Thriller
True Crime
Gangs and Mobs
Historical Crime and Detection
Crime and the Spy genre
Crime and the Gothic
Feminist Crime Fiction and Female Sleuths
African-American Detection and Crime Fiction
Ethnic Postcolonial Crime and Detection (Anglophone)
Crime Writing in Other Languages
Postmodern and Metaphysical Detection
Crime and Detective Literature for Young Readers
Crime in Comics and the Graphic Novel
Criminal Investigation on Film
Artists at Work
Fiction:
William Godwin (1756-1836)
Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849)
Wilkie Collins (1824-1889)
Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930)
Raymond Chandler (1888-1959)
Agatha Christie (1890-1976)
James M. Cain (1892-1977)
Dorothy L. Sayers (1893-1957)
Dashiell Hammett (1894-1961)
Jorge Luis Borges (1899-1986)
Chester Himes (1909-1984)
David Goodis (1917-1967)
P. D. James (1920- )
Patricia Highsmith (1921-1995)
Elmore Leonard (1925- ) -Charles J. Rzepka
Sara Paretsky (1947- )
Walter Mosley (1952- )
Film:
Alfred Hitchcock (1899-1980)
Martin Scorsese (1942- )
John Woo (1946- )
Conclusion
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