The Cambridge companion to world crime fiction /
Accessible yet comprehensive, this first systematic account of crime fiction across the globe offers a deep and thoroughly nuanced understanding of the genre's transnational history. Offering a lucid account of the major theoretical issues and comparative perspectives that constitute world crim...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2022.
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| Series: | Cambridge companions to literature.
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| Summary: | Accessible yet comprehensive, this first systematic account of crime fiction across the globe offers a deep and thoroughly nuanced understanding of the genre's transnational history. Offering a lucid account of the major theoretical issues and comparative perspectives that constitute world crime fiction, this book introduces readers to the international crime fiction publishing industry, the translation and circulation of crime fiction, international crime fiction collections, the role of women in world crime fiction and regional forms of crime fiction. It also illuminates the past and present of crime fiction in various supranational regions across the world, including east and south Asia, the Arab World, sub-Saharan Africa, Europe and Scandinavia, as well as three spheres defined by a shared language, namely the Francophone, Lusophone and Hispanic worlds. Thoroughly-researched and broad in scope, this book is as valuable for general readers as for undergraduate and postgraduate students of popular fiction and world literature. |
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| Physical Description: | xxiii, 296 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781108484596 110848459X 9781108723350 1108723357 |