The Twentieth Century Detective Novel
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Twentieth Century Crime Mystery Writers
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Author : NA NA
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2015-12-25
Twentieth Century Crime Mystery Writers written by NA NA and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-12-25 with Literary Criticism categories.
Twentieth Century Crime Fiction
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Author : Gill Plain
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2014-07-16
Twentieth Century Crime Fiction written by Gill Plain and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-07-16 with Literary Collections categories.
First Published in 2001. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Twentieth Century Crime Fiction
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Author : Gill Plain
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2001
Twentieth Century Crime Fiction written by Gill Plain and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001 with Literary Criticism categories.
Twentieth-Century Crime Fiction is an illuminating and challenging critical study of this ever popular genre. In the book Gill Plain uses contemporary theories of gender and sexuality to challenge the dominant perception of crime fiction as a conservative genre. The rise of lesbian detection and the impact of serial killing are considered alongside detailed analyses of works by popular writers such as Agatha Christie, Raymond Chandler, Dick Francis and Sara Paretsky.Beginning with a radical reconceptualisation of genre categories, the book goes on to consider recent revisions and reappropriations of the form. The final section focuses on textual pleasure and the destabilising of genre boundaries, raising the timely question of whether the queering of crime fiction represents a revitalising paradigm shift or the conceptual collapse of the genre.* The first substantial critical work on twentieth-century crime from a gender perspective* Provides in-depth textual analysis often missing from studies of popular fiction* Reappraises the framework within which crime fiction might be studied and taught* Sets key 'canonical' crime writers alongside both radical innovators and best-selling populists of the genre
Detective Fiction
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Author : Robin W. Winks
language : en
Publisher: Foul Play Press
Release Date : 1988
Detective Fiction written by Robin W. Winks and has been published by Foul Play Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1988 with Fiction categories.
Twentieth Century Crime Fiction
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Author : Lee Horsley
language : en
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Release Date : 2005-08-25
Twentieth Century Crime Fiction written by Lee Horsley and has been published by OUP Oxford this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005-08-25 with Literary Criticism categories.
Twentieth-Century Crime Fiction aims to enhance understanding of one of the most popular forms of genre fiction by examining a wide variety of the detective and crime fiction produced in Britain and America during the twentieth century. It will be of interest to anyone who enjoys reading crime fiction but is specifically designed with the needs of students in mind. It introduces different theoretical approaches to crime fiction (e.g., formalist, historicist, psychoanalytic, postcolonial, feminist) and will be a useful supplement to a range of crime fiction courses, whether they focus on historical contexts, ideological shifts, the emergence of sub-genres, or the application of critical theories. Forty-seven widely available stories and novels are chosen for detailed discussion. In seeking to illuminate the relationship between different phases of generic development Lee Horsley employs an overlapping historical framework, with sections doubling back chronologically in order to explore the extent to which successive transformations have their roots within the earlier phases of crime writing, as well as responding in complex ways to the preoccupations and anxieties of their own eras. The first part of the study considers the nature and evolution of the main sub-genres of crime fiction: the classic and hard-boiled strands of detective fiction, the non-investigative crime novel (centred on transgressors or victims), and the 'mixed' form of the police procedural. The second half of the study examines the ways in which writers have used crime fiction as a vehicle for socio-political critique. These chapters consider the evolution of committed, oppositional strategies, tracing the development of politicized detective and crime fiction, from Depression-era protests against economic injustice to more recent decades which have seen writers launching protests against ecological crimes, rampant consumerism, Reaganomics, racism, and sexism.
The Nineteenth Century Periodical Press And The Development Of Detective Fiction
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Author : Samuel Saunders
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2021-05-11
The Nineteenth Century Periodical Press And The Development Of Detective Fiction written by Samuel Saunders and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-05-11 with Education categories.
This book re-imagines nineteenth-century detective fiction as a literary genre that was connected to, and nurtured by, contemporary periodical journalism. Whilst ‘detective fiction’ is almost universally-accepted to have originated in the nineteenth century, a variety of widely-accepted scholarly narratives of the genre’s evolution neglect to connect it with the development of a free press. The volume traces how police officers, detectives, criminals, and the criminal justice system were discussed in the pages of a variety of magazines and journals, and argues that this affected how the wider nineteenth-century society perceived organised law enforcement and detection. This, in turn, helped to shape detective fiction into the genre that we recognise today. The book also explores how periodicals and newspapers contained forgotten, non-canonical examples of ‘detective fiction’, and that these texts can help complicate the narrative of the genre’s evolution across the mid- to late nineteenth century.
Twentieth Century Detective Stories
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Author : Ellery Queen
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1948
Twentieth Century Detective Stories written by Ellery Queen and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1948 with Detective and mystery stories categories.
The Benson Murder Case
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Author : Willard Huntington Wright
language : en
Publisher: Good Press
Release Date : 2021-08-30
The Benson Murder Case written by Willard Huntington Wright and has been published by Good Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-08-30 with Fiction categories.
In this crime mystery, New York dilettante Philo Vance decides to assist the police in investigating the death of another man-about-town because he finds the psychological aspects of the crime of interest, and feels that they would be beyond the capacities of the police, even those of his friend District Attorney Markham. Vance investigates the circumstances under which the body was found and reconstructs the crime sufficiently to determine that the murderer is five feet, ten and a half inches in height. Together, Vance and Markham investigate Benson's business associates and romantic interests until Vance manages to pierce the murderer's alibi for the time of the murder and force a confession.
A Gentleman S Murder
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Author : Christopher Huang
language : en
Publisher: Inkshares
Release Date : 2018-07-31
A Gentleman S Murder written by Christopher Huang and has been published by Inkshares this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-07-31 with Fiction categories.
Featuring a half-Chinese detective protagonist, A GENTLEMAN'S MURDER is a must for those who love mysteries and reads like a Christie-esque whodunit with a modern eye toward the historical treatment of Chinese veterans and post-war racism.
Queering Agatha Christie
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Author : J.C Bernthal
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2016-09-02
Queering Agatha Christie written by J.C Bernthal and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-09-02 with Literary Criticism categories.
This book is the first fully theorized queer reading of a Golden Age British crime writer. Agatha Christie was the most commercially successful novelist of the twentieth century, and her fiction remains popular. She created such memorable characters as Hercule Poirot and Jane Marple, and has become synonymous with a nostalgic, conservative tradition of crime fiction. J.C. Bernthal reads Christie through the lens of queer theory, uncovering a playful, alert, and subversive social commentary. After considering Christie’s emergence in a commercial market hostile to her sex, in Queering Agatha Christie Bernthal explores homophobic stereotypes, gender performativity, queer children, and masquerade in key texts published between 1920 and 1952. Christie engaged with debates around human identity in a unique historical period affected by two world wars. The final chapter considers twenty-first century Poirot and Marple adaptations, with visible LGBT characters, and poses the question: might the books be queerer?