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Author | : Stephen Knight |
Publisher | : Palgrave Macmillan |
Total Pages | : 240 |
Release | : 2004-01-17 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780333791790 |
Download Crime Fiction, 1800-2000 Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Stephen Knight's book is a full analytic survey of crime fiction from its origins in the nineteenth century to the most recent developments. 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: the early development of Detection, the growing emphasis on Death, and the modern celebration of Diversity. The best criticism is cited and the book provides full references and a helpful chronology, making this a highly readable complete study of a popular and still relatively underexamined genre.
Author | : Stephen Knight |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 365 |
Release | : 2010-04-09 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1350309575 |
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Since its appearance nearly two centuries ago, crime fiction has gripped readers' imaginations around the world. Detectives have varied enormously: from the nineteenth-century policemen (and a few women), through stars like Sherlock Holmes and Miss Marple, to newly self-aware voices of the present - feminist, African American, lesbian, gay, postcolonial and postmodern. Stephen Knight's fascinating book is a comprehensive analytic survey of crime fiction from its origins in the nineteenth century to the present day. Knight explains how and why the various forms of the genre have evolved, explores a range of authors and movements, and argues that the genre as a whole has three parts – the early development of Detection, the growing emphasis on Death, and the modern celebration of Diversity. The expanded second edition has been thoroughly updated in the light of recent research and new developments, such as ethnic crime fiction, the rise of thrillers in the serial-killer and urban collapse modes, and feel-good 'cozies'. It also explores a number of fictional works which have been published in the last few years and features a helpful glossary. With full references, and written in a highly engaging style, this remains the essential short guide for readers of crime fiction everywhere!
Author | : Stephen Knight |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 304 |
Release | : 2010-04-09 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1137020210 |
Download Crime Fiction since 1800 Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Since its appearance nearly two centuries ago, crime fiction has gripped readers' imaginations around the world. Detectives have varied enormously: from the nineteenth-century policemen (and a few women), through stars like Sherlock Holmes and Miss Marple, to newly self-aware voices of the present - feminist, African American, lesbian, gay, postcolonial and postmodern. Stephen Knight's fascinating book is a comprehensive analytic survey of crime fiction from its origins in the nineteenth century to the present day. Knight explains how and why the various forms of the genre have evolved, explores a range of authors and movements, and argues that the genre as a whole has three parts – the early development of Detection, the growing emphasis on Death, and the modern celebration of Diversity. The expanded second edition has been thoroughly updated in the light of recent research and new developments, such as ethnic crime fiction, the rise of thrillers in the serial-killer and urban collapse modes, and feel-good 'cozies'. It also explores a number of fictional works which have been published in the last few years and features a helpful glossary. With full references, and written in a highly engaging style, this remains the essential short guide for readers of crime fiction everywhere!
Author | : Antonia Hodgson |
Publisher | : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
Total Pages | : 401 |
Release | : 2014 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0544176677 |
Download The Devil in the Marshalsea Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The first thrilling historical crime novel starring Thomas Hawkins, a rakish scoundel with a heart of gold, set in the darkest debtors' prison in Georgian London, where people fall dead as quickly as they fall in love and no one is as they seem.
Author | : LeRoy Lad Panek |
Publisher | : McFarland |
Total Pages | : 237 |
Release | : 2015-01-24 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0786481382 |
Download The Origins of the American Detective Story Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Edgar Allan Poe essentially invented the detective story in 1841 with Murders in the Rue Morgue. In the years that followed, however, detective fiction in America saw no significant progress as a literary genre. Much to the dismay of moral crusaders like Anthony Comstock, dime novels and other sensationalist publications satisfied the public's hunger for a yarn. Things changed as the century waned, and eventually the detective was reborn as a figure of American literature. In part these changes were due to a combination of social conditions, including the rise and decline of the police as an institution; the parallel development of private detectives; the birth of the crusading newspaper reporter; and the beginnings of forensic science. Influential, too, was the new role model offered by a wildly popular British import named Sherlock Holmes. Focusing on the late 19th century and early 20th, this volume covers the formative years of American detective fiction. Instructors considering this book for use in a course may request an examination copy here.
Author | : Charles Felix |
Publisher | : e-artnow |
Total Pages | : 118 |
Release | : 2020-08-24 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : |
Download The Notting Hill Mystery Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Source documents compiled by insurance investigator Ralph Henderson are used to build a case against Baron "R___", who is suspected of murdering his wife. The baron's wife died from drinking a bottle of acid, apparently while sleepwalking in her husband's private laboratory. Henderson's suspicions are raised when he learns that the baron recently had purchased five life insurance policies for his wife. As Henderson investigates the case, he discovers not one but three murders. Although the baron's guilt is clear to the reader even from the outset, how he did it remains a mystery. Eventually this is revealed, but how to catch him becomes the final challenge; he seems to have committed the perfect crime.
Author | : Otto Penzler |
Publisher | : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
Total Pages | : 629 |
Release | : 2014 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0544302222 |
Download The Best American Mystery Stories of the 19th Century Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
An unparalleled treasury of American 19th century mystery fiction selected and introduced by Otto Penzler.
Author | : Stephen Knight |
Publisher | : Palgrave Macmillan |
Total Pages | : 240 |
Release | : 2004-01-17 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780333791783 |
Download Crime Fiction, 1800-2000 Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Stephen Knight's book is a full analytic survey of crime fiction from its origins in the nineteenth century to the most recent developments. 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: the early development of Detection, the growing emphasis on Death, and the modern celebration of Diversity. The best criticism is cited and the book provides full references and a helpful chronology, making this a highly-readable complete study of a popular and still relatively underexamined genre.
Author | : Shampa Roy |
Publisher | : Taylor & Francis |
Total Pages | : 207 |
Release | : 2020-08-10 |
Genre | : Literary Collections |
ISBN | : 100017123X |
Download True Crime Writings in Colonial India Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The emergent culture of crime writings in late 19th century colonial Bengal (India) is an interesting testimony to how literature is shaped by various material forces including the market. This book deals with true crime writings of the late 1800s published by ‘lowbrow publishing houses’ — infamous for publishing ‘sensational’ and the ‘vulgar’ literature — which had an avid bhadralok (genteel) readership. The volume focuses on select translations of true crime writings by Bakaullah and Priyanath Mukhopadhyay who worked as darogas (Detective Inspectors) in the police department in mid-late nineteenth century colonised Bengal. These published accounts of cases investigated by them are among the very first manifestations of the crime genre in India. The writings reflect their understandings of criminality and guilt, as well as negotiations with colonial law and policing. Further, through a selection of cases in which women make an appearance either as victims or offenders, (or sometimes as both,) this book sheds light on the hidden gendered experiences of the time, often missing in mainstream Bangla literature. Combining a love for suspense with critical readings of a cultural phenomenon, this book will be of much interest to scholars and researchers of comparative literature, translation studies, gender studies, literary theory, cultural studies, modern history, and lovers of crime fiction from all disciplines.
Author | : Nina L. Molinaro |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 206 |
Release | : 2016-03-03 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1317079051 |
Download Policing Gender and Alicia Giménez Bartlett's Crime Fiction Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Alicia Giménez Bartlett’s popular crime series, written in Spanish and organized around the exploits of Police Inspector Petra Delicado and Deputy Inspector Fermin Garzon, is arguably the most successful detective series published in Spain during the previous three decades. Nina L. Molinaro examines the tensions between the rhetoric of gender differences espoused by the woman detective and the orthodox ideology of the police procedural. She argues that even as the series incorporates gender differences into the crime series formula, it does so in order to correct women, naturalize men’s authority, sanction social hierarchies, and assuage collective anxieties. As Molinaro shows, with the exception of the protagonist, the women characters require constant surveillance and modification, often as a result of men’s supposedly intrinsic protectiveness or excessive sexuality. Men, by contrast, circulate more freely in the fictional world and are intrinsic to the political, psychological, and economic prosperity of their communities. Molinaro situates her discussion in Petra Delicado’s contemporary Spain of dog owners, ¡Hola!, Russian cults, and gated communities.