Crime fiction /
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| Author / Creator: | Scaggs, John, 1970- |
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| Imprint: | Abingdon, Oxon ; New York : Routledge, 2005. |
| Description: | viii, 170 p. ; 21 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | The new critical idiom New critical idiom. |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/5666048 |
Table of Contents:
- Series Editor's Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- 1. A Chronology of Crime
- Early Crime Narratives
- Crime Stories as Cautionary Tales
- Crime Fiction and Policing
- The Golden Age to the Present
- 2. 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
- 3. 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
- 4. 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
- 5. The Crime Thriller
- Outlining the Crime Thriller
- The Noir Thriller
- The Anti-Conspiracy Thriller
- 6. 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
- Select Bibliography