Crime Fiction, 1800-2000 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Crime Fiction, 1800-2000 write by Stephen Knight. This book was released on 2004-01-17. Crime Fiction, 1800-2000 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Stephen Knight's book is a full analytic survey of crime fiction from its origins in the nineteenth century to the most recent developments. Knight explains how and why the various forms of the genre evolved, explores major authors and movements, and argues that the genre as a whole has three parts: the early development of Detection, the growing emphasis on Death, and the modern celebration of Diversity. The best criticism is cited and the book provides full references and a helpful chronology, making this a highly readable complete study of a popular and still relatively underexamined genre.
Crime Fiction since 1800
Crime Fiction since 1800 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Crime Fiction since 1800 write by Stephen Knight. This book was released on 2010-04-09. Crime Fiction since 1800 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Since its appearance nearly two centuries ago, crime fiction has gripped readers' imaginations around the world. Detectives have varied enormously: from the nineteenth-century policemen (and a few women), through stars like Sherlock Holmes and Miss Marple, to newly self-aware voices of the present - feminist, African American, lesbian, gay, postcolonial and postmodern. Stephen Knight's fascinating book is a comprehensive analytic survey of crime fiction from its origins in the nineteenth century to the present day. Knight explains how and why the various forms of the genre have evolved, explores a range of authors and movements, and argues that the genre as a whole has three parts – the early development of Detection, the growing emphasis on Death, and the modern celebration of Diversity. The expanded second edition has been thoroughly updated in the light of recent research and new developments, such as ethnic crime fiction, the rise of thrillers in the serial-killer and urban collapse modes, and feel-good 'cozies'. It also explores a number of fictional works which have been published in the last few years and features a helpful glossary. With full references, and written in a highly engaging style, this remains the essential short guide for readers of crime fiction everywhere!
The Origins of the American Detective Story
The Origins of the American Detective Story - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Origins of the American Detective Story write by LeRoy Lad Panek. This book was released on 2015-01-24. The Origins of the American Detective Story available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Edgar Allan Poe essentially invented the detective story in 1841 with Murders in the Rue Morgue. In the years that followed, however, detective fiction in America saw no significant progress as a literary genre. Much to the dismay of moral crusaders like Anthony Comstock, dime novels and other sensationalist publications satisfied the public's hunger for a yarn. Things changed as the century waned, and eventually the detective was reborn as a figure of American literature. In part these changes were due to a combination of social conditions, including the rise and decline of the police as an institution; the parallel development of private detectives; the birth of the crusading newspaper reporter; and the beginnings of forensic science. Influential, too, was the new role model offered by a wildly popular British import named Sherlock Holmes. Focusing on the late 19th century and early 20th, this volume covers the formative years of American detective fiction. Instructors considering this book for use in a course may request an examination copy here.
The Interrogator
The Interrogator - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Interrogator write by Edward Gorman. This book was released on 2012. The Interrogator available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Featuring award-winning suspense, thriller, and noir masters like Lee Child, Joyce Carol Oates, David Morrell, Bill Pronzini, Jeffery Deaver, Kristine Kathryn Rusch, Max Allan Collins & Mickey Spillane, Tom Piccirilli, Dave Zeltserman, Michael Connelly, and more than a dozen others, this is an anthology not to be missed! Full of nail-biting suspense, jaw-dropping action, and even some heart-wrenching emotional drama, The Interrogator and Other Criminally Good Fiction is just that: criminally good!
Policing Gender and Alicia Giménez Bartlett's Crime Fiction
Policing Gender and Alicia Giménez Bartlett's Crime Fiction - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Policing Gender and Alicia Giménez Bartlett's Crime Fiction write by Nina L. Molinaro. This book was released on 2016-03-03. Policing Gender and Alicia Giménez Bartlett's Crime Fiction available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Alicia Giménez Bartlett’s popular crime series, written in Spanish and organized around the exploits of Police Inspector Petra Delicado and Deputy Inspector Fermin Garzon, is arguably the most successful detective series published in Spain during the previous three decades. Nina L. Molinaro examines the tensions between the rhetoric of gender differences espoused by the woman detective and the orthodox ideology of the police procedural. She argues that even as the series incorporates gender differences into the crime series formula, it does so in order to correct women, naturalize men’s authority, sanction social hierarchies, and assuage collective anxieties. As Molinaro shows, with the exception of the protagonist, the women characters require constant surveillance and modification, often as a result of men’s supposedly intrinsic protectiveness or excessive sexuality. Men, by contrast, circulate more freely in the fictional world and are intrinsic to the political, psychological, and economic prosperity of their communities. Molinaro situates her discussion in Petra Delicado’s contemporary Spain of dog owners, ¡Hola!, Russian cults, and gated communities.
