Crime Fiction

Name: Crime Fiction
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ISBN: 9780415318242

ISBN-10: 0415318246

ISBN-13: 9780415318242

Edition: 2005

Authors: John Scaggs

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Crime Fictionprovides a lively introduction to what is both a wide-ranging and hugely popular literary genre. Using examples from a variety of novels, short stories, films and televisions series, John Scaggs: *presents a concise history of crime fiction - from biblical narratives to James Ellroy - broadening the genre to include revenge tragedy and the gothic novel *explores the key sub-genres of crime fiction, such as "Rational Criminal Investigation," "The Hard-Boiled Mode," "The Police Procedural" and "Historical Crime Fiction" *locates texts and their recurring themes and motifs in a wider social and historical context *outlines the various critical concepts that are central to the…

Book details

List price: $31.95
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: Routledge
Publication date: 6/13/2005
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 184
Size: 5.31" wide x 7.80" long x 0.39" tall
Weight: 0.440
Language: English



Series Editor's Preface


Acknowledgements


Introduction



A Chronology of Crime


Early Crime Narratives


Crime Stories as Cautionary Tales


Crime Fiction and Policing


The Golden Age to the Present



Mystery and Detective Fiction


Retracing the Steps: The Origins of Mystery Fiction


Reasoning Machines: The Figure of the Amateur Detective


Escalating Crimes: From Purloined Letters to Murder


Maintaining Social Order and the Status Quo


Settings and Sub-Genres



The Hard-Boiled Mode


Murder for a Reason: Origins and Development


A Shop-Soiled Galahad: The Private Eye Hero


Last Chances and New Beginnings: The Myth of the Frontier


Mean Streets and Urban Decay: Modernity and the City


Fallen Angels: Appropriation of the Hard-Boiled Mode



The Police Procedural


Thin Blue Lines: Fiction as Ideological State Apparatus


Private Eye to Public Eye: The Development of the Procedural


Textual Investigations: Characteristics of the Procedural


Social Placebo: The Magic Bullet of Procedural Reassurance


Arrested Developments: Appropriations of the Procedural



The Crime Thriller


Outlining the Crime Thriller


The Noir Thriller


The Anti-Conspiracy Thriller



Historical Crime Fiction


Writing History and Interpreting the Past


Crime, History, and Realism


The Case of The Name of the Rose


Postmodernism and the Anti-Detective Novel


Glossary


Suggestions for Further Reading


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