A Companion to Crime Fiction (Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture) - Softcover

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Charles J. 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), Essays, Inventions, Interventions (2010), and most recently, Being Cool: The Work of Elmore Leonard (2013; pbk 2017).

Lee Horsley is a retired Reader in Literature and Culture at Lancaster University, where she taught 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).

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A COMPANION TO CRIME FICTION

This cutting edge Companion brings together a series of 47 original essays from some of the world's leading authorities to provide the definitive guide to crime fiction from its origins in the eighteenth century to its phenomenal present-day popularity.

Part One follows the development of crime fiction over the last three centuries, examining the traditions and conventions of the genre, as well as its cultural and social contexts, before moving on, in Part Two, to explore the different types of genres and subgenres that have emerged. The final chapters profile 20 of the most significant crime writers and film makers from William Godwin to Arthur Conan Doyle to Agatha Christie to Martin Scorsese examining the ways in which they have shaped and influenced the field.

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A COMPANION TO CRIME FICTION

This cutting edge Companion brings together a series of 47 original essays from some of the world's leading authorities to provide the definitive guide to crime fiction from its origins in the eighteenth century to its phenomenal present-day popularity.

Part One follows the development of crime fiction over the last three centuries, examining the traditions and conventions of the genre, as well as its cultural and social contexts, before moving on, in Part Two, to explore the different types of genres and subgenres that have emerged. The final chapters profile 20 of the most significant crime writers and film makers – from William Godwin to Arthur Conan Doyle to Agatha Christie to Martin Scorsese – examining the ways in which they have shaped and influenced the field.