Crime, Fear and the Law in True Crime Stories

Anita Biressi

• Hardcover | Engels | Crime Files
• Why do true crime stories exert such popular fascination? What do they have to say about the fear of crime in the present moment? This book examines t... Lees meer

The Postcolonial Detective

• Hardcover | Engels | Crime Files
• What happens to detective fiction when the detective is 'post-colonial', a marginalized native or settler in a country recovering from colonialism? Po... Lees meer

Sherlock Holmes in Context

• Hardcover | Engels | Crime Files
• This book of interdisciplinary essays serves to situate the original Sherlock Holmes, and his various adaptations, in a contemporary cultural context.... Lees meer

Dime Novels and the Roots of American Detective Fiction

P Bedore

• Paperback | Engels | Crime Files
• This book reveals subversive representations of gender, race and class in detective dime novels (1860-1915), arguing that inherent tensions between su... Lees meer

Late Victorian Crime Fiction in the Shadows of Sherlock

C Clarke

• Hardcover | Engels | Crime Files
• The 1880s and 1890s were the years in which detective fiction firmly established itself as a genre and sealed its popularity with the reading public. ... Lees meer

Contemporary European Crime Fiction

• Paperback | Engels | Crime Files
• This book represents the first extended consideration of contemporary crime fiction as a European phenomenon. Understanding crime fiction in its broad... Lees meer

Deviance in Contemporary Crime Fiction

C Gregoriou

• Paperback | Engels | Crime Files
• Christiana Gregoriou's book, now available in paperback, attempts to redefine the boundaries of an endlessly fascinating genre by exploring three aspe... Lees meer

Detective Fiction and the Ghost Story

M Cook

• Paperback | Engels | Crime Files
• Detective Fiction and the Ghost Story is a lively series of case studies celebrating the close relationship between detective fiction and the ghost st... Lees meer

Masculinity, Crime and Self-Defence in Victorian Literature

E Godfrey

• Paperback | Engels | Crime Files
• Now in paperback, this book considers crime fighting from the perspective of the civilian city-goer, from the mid-Victorian garotting panics to 1914. ... Lees meer

American Gangster Cinema

F Mason

• Paperback | Engels | Crime Files
• Much analysis of gangster movies has been based upon a study of the gangster as a malign figuration of the American Dream, originally set in the era o... Lees meer

Deconstructing True Crime Literature

Charlotte Barnes

• Paperback | Engels | Crime Files
• This book provides a critical discussion of True Crime literature, arguing for the deconstruction of the genre into subgenres that better reflect a wo... Lees meer

A Counter-History of Crime Fiction

Maurizio Ascari

• Hardcover | Engels | Crime Files
• This book takes a look at the evolution of crime fiction. Considering 'criminography' as a system of inter-related sub-genres, it explores the connect... Lees meer

Burial Plots in British Detective Fiction

Lisa Hopkins

• Hardcover | Engels | Crime Files
• Burial Plots in British Detective Fiction offers an overview of the ways in which the past is brought back to the surface and influences the present i... Lees meer

The Noir Thriller

Lee Horsley

• Paperback | Engels | Crime Files
• What is literary noir? How do British and American noir thrillers relate to their historical contexts? Lee Horsley's updated study of the genre, now a... Lees meer

The Contemporary Irish Detective Novel

• Paperback | Engels | Crime Files
• Irish detective fiction has enjoyed an international readership for over a decade, appearing on best-seller lists across the globe. But its breadth of... Lees meer

Deconstructing True Crime Literature

Charlotte Barnes

• Hardcover | Engels | Crime Files
• This book provides a critical discussion of True Crime literature, arguing for the deconstruction of the genre into subgenres that better reflect a wo... Lees meer

Femininity, Crime and Self-Defence in Victorian Literature and Society

E Godfrey

• Paperback | Engels | Crime Files
• This exploration into the development of women's self-defence from 1850 to 1914 features major writers, including H.G. Wells, Elizabeth Robins and Ric... Lees meer

A Counter-History of Crime Fiction

Maurizio Ascari

• Paperback | Engels | Crime Files
• A Counter-History of Crime Fiction takes a new look at the evolution of crime fiction, drawing on material from the Middle Ages up to the early Twenti... Lees meer

Contemporary European Crime Fiction

• Hardcover | Engels | Crime Files
• This book represents the first extended consideration of contemporary crime fiction as a European phenomenon. Understanding crime fiction in its broad... Lees meer

British Murder Mysteries, 1880-1965

• Hardcover | Engels | Crime Files
• British Murder Mysteries, 1880-1965: Facts and Fictions conceptualizes detective fiction as an archive, i.e., a trove of documents and sources to be u... Lees meer

The American Thriller

P Cobley

• Hardcover | Engels | Crime Files
• What is the American Thriller? Has it developed over time? What was it like in the past? This is a book about thrillers and gaining knowledge of what ... Lees meer

Female Corpses in Crime Fiction

Glen S Close

• Hardcover | Engels | Crime Files
• This book examines the central significance of sexualized female corpses in modern and contemporary Hispanic and Anglophone crime fiction. Beginning w... Lees meer

Domestic Noir

• Hardcover | Engels | Crime Files
• This book represents the first serious consideration of the 'domestic noir' phenomenon and, by extension, the psychological thriller. The only such la... Lees meer

Ocular Proof and the Spectacled Detective in British Crime Fiction

Lisa Hopkins

• Paperback | Engels | Crime Files
• From Sherlock Holmes onwards, fictional detectives use lenses: Ocular Proof and the Spectacled Detective in British Crime Fiction argues that these vi... Lees meer