Crime fiction since 1800 : detection, death, diversity / Stephen Knight
- Bib ID:
- 4980381
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Knight, Stephen, 1940-
- Edition:
- 2nd ed.
- Description:
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- Basingstoke [England] ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2004, 2010
- xvi, 316 p. ; 23 cm.
- ISBN:
-
- 0230580734
- 9780230580732
- 0230580742
- 9780230580749
- Full contents:
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- Beginning detection. Before detection ; Enter the detective ; Realistic police ; Edgar Allan Poe's initiative
- Developing detection. Early English detection ; Sensation ; Gaboriau and the 1870s-1990s ; Detective apotheosis : Sherlock Holmes
- After Sherlock Holmes. Enter death ; Scientific detectives ; Ironic anti-heroes ; Low-level detection ; Women on the case
- Forming the clue-puzzle. Had they but known ; How golden was the age? ; Golden royalty : Agatha Christie ; American gold ; English variations ; Supporting cast ; Themes and explanations
- American versions. Origins and attitudes ; Hammett's initiative ; Chandler's variation ; Other American crime writers ; The crime novelists ; The 'Tough Guy' abroad
- Continuity and diversity. After the 'Golden Age' in Britain ; The private eye modernised ; Other continuities ; The psychothriller ; Police procedurals
- Diversifying gender. Towards feminist detection ; Feminist detection in America ; Feminist detection around the world ; The lesbian detective ; Male gay detection
- Diversifying race and ethnicity. Black male detection ; Black female detection ; Other ethnicities
- Diversity : postmodernity, body, city. Postmodern crime fiction ; Generic violence to city and body ; Urban collapse ; Serial killers.
- Notes:
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- Previous ed.: published as Crime fiction, 1800-2000. 2004.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 247-298) and index.
- Subject:
- Other authors/contributors:
- Knight, Stephen, 1940- Crime fiction, 1800-2000
- Copyright:
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