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This compilation of essays attempts to trace the reasons behind the ongoing popularity of crime fiction. It contains twenty-one original essays written by scholars and practitioners of crime fiction which discuss key concepts in crime fiction studies of generic diversity, the evolution of characters and the growing significance of space and place.
More than guilty pleasure: the case of crime fiction / Stephen Butler and Agnieszka Sienkiewicz-Charlish -- Navigating the boarders of reality: Johan Theorin and the gothic revival in Swedish crime fiction / Kerstin Bergman -- Beyond anthropocentrism: transformations of criminal genre in science fiction / Maurice N. Fadel -- Chekhov as crime writer: detecting intertextuality in the "safety match" / Marcia A. Morris -- A mirror of society: Japanese crime fiction / Wendy Jones Nakanishi -- "Mock turtle": Dorothy L. Sayers, the golden age detective novel, and modernist fiction / Eric Sandberg -- Gothic Crimes: Rebus and the ghosts of the past / Agnieszka Sienkiewicz-Charlish -- "Beyond our illusory homelands": representability, deception, and epistemological angst in John Burnside's A Summer of Drowning (2012) / Monika Szuba -- Diegetic border-crossing in Agatha Christie's Miss Marple short stories / Jadwiga Węgrodzka -- Curious incident of the lost children / Stephen Butler -- From Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes to Donan Coyle's Shairlock Holtes: the beginnings of the Italian canon of crime fiction / Marianna D'Ezio -- Zen, existentialism and crime: Janwillem van de Wetering's Amsterdam cops / Arco van Leperen -- "Fuckin' cheesecake. Of course there's a contract out on us and all": adapting George V. Higgins / Gill Jamieson and Tony Grace -- Neo-Victorian revisions of inspector abberline: from Hell & Ripper Street / Lucyna Krawczyk-Żywko -- The detection of crime vs. the crime of detection: P.D. James's Uneasy Detectives / Miriam Loth -- Ethnicity and criminality in Richard Head's the English rogue described in the Life of Meriton Latroon (1665) / Barry Montgomery -- The stage on the page: William Shakespeare and Ngaio Marsh / Simon Dwyer and Rachel Franks -- Stockholm in a rapidly changing world as seen in the crime fiction of Sjwall and Wahl (1965-75) and Jens Lapidus (2006-2011) / Daniel Ogden -- Tracking criminal journeys into the dark folds of the metropolis: Nicoletta Vallorani's Dentro la notte, e ciao / Anna Pasolini -- A criminal heterotopia of university libraries or the doubling "of other space" in academic mystery fiction / Elżbieta Perkowska-Gawlik -- Crime fiction and politics: an autopsy / Paul Johnston -- Reading readers of crime fiction?: potentialities and limits of the analysis of online reviews as resource for literary studies / Janneke Rauscher -- Emmy / David Malcolm.
Stephen Butler, Agnieszka Sienkiewicz-Charlish (eds.).
"This publication was financially supported by the University of Gdansk, Institute of English and American Studies"--Title page verso.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Transatlantic studies in British and North American culture ; v. 24