Crime fiction, 1800-2000 : detection, death, diversity /
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| Author / Creator: | Knight, Stephen Thomas. |
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| Imprint: | Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2004. |
| Description: | xv, 272 p. ; 23 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/5041293 |
Table of Contents:
- Preface
- Part I. Detection
- 1. Beginnings
- i. Before Detection
- ii. Enter the Detective
- iii. Realistic Police
- iv. Edgar Allan Poe's Initiative
- 2. The Development of Detection
- i. Plain English Detection
- ii. Sensation
- iii. Gaboriau and the 1870s-1880s
- iv. Detective Apotheosis: Sherlock Holmes
- Part II. Death
- 3. After Sherlock Holmes
- i. Enter Death
- ii. Scientific Detectives
- iii. Ironic Anti-Heroes
- iv. Low-level Detection
- v. Women on the Case
- 4. The Clue-puzzle Forms
- i. Had They But Known
- ii. How Golden Was the Age?
- iii. Golden Royalty: Agatha Christie
- iv. American Gold
- v. English Variations
- vi. Supporting Cast
- vii. Themes and Explanations
- 5. The American Version
- i. Origins and Attitudes
- ii. Hammett's Initiative
- iii. Chandler's Variation
- iv. Other American Crime Writers
- v. The Crime Novelists
- vi. The 'Tough Guy' Abroad
- Part III. Diversity
- 6. Continuities with Change
- i. After the 'Golden Age' in Britain
- ii. The Private Eye Modernised
- iii. Other Continuities
- iv. The Psychothriller
- 7. Police Procedures
- i. Origins
- ii. Consciously Police Procedural
- iii. After McBain
- 8. Diversifying the Viewpoint: Gender
- i. Towards Feminist Detection
- ii. Feminist Detection in America
- iii. Feminist Detectives in Britain
- iv. The Lesbian Detective
- v. Male Gay Detection
- 9. Diversifying the Viewpoint: Race
- i. African-American Crime Fiction
- ii. Black Women Detectives
- iii. Other American Ethnicities
- 10. At the Cutting Edge
- i. Postmodern Crime Fiction
- ii. Generic Violence
- A Chronology of Crime Fiction
- References
- Index
