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

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

Late Victorian Crime Fiction in the Shadows of Sherlock

C Clarke

• Hardcover | Engels | Crime Files
• This book investigates the development of crime fiction in the 1880s and 1890s, challenging studies of late-Victorian crime fiction which have given u... 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

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

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

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

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

Deviance in Contemporary Crime Fiction

C Gregoriou

• Paperback | Engels | Crime Files
• This book explores the three aspects of deviance that contemporary crime fiction manipulates: linguistic, social, and generic. Gregoriou conducts case... 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

Agatha Christie

M Makinen

• Hardcover | Engels | Crime Files
• Christie's books depict women as adventurous, independent figures who renegotiate sexual relationships along more equal lines. Women are also allowed ... 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

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? In considering such questions, this study range... 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

A Counter-History of Crime Fiction

Maurizio Ascari

• Paperback | 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

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

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

Domestic Noir

• Hardcover | Engels | Crime Files
• Offers the first comprehensive overview of one the most commercially successful crime fiction subgenres of the 21st century Includes a foreword from J... 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

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