The Cambridge Companion to Crime Fiction |
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Editor:
| Priestman, Martin |
Series title: | Cambridge Companions to Literature Ser. |
ISBN: | 978-0-521-80399-1 |
Publication Date: | Nov 2003 |
Publisher: | Cambridge University Press
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Book Format: | Hardback |
List Price: | AUD $152.95 |
Book Description:
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This Companion covers British and American crime fiction from the eighteenth century to the end of the twentieth. As well as discussing the 'detective' fiction of writers like Arthur Conan Doyle, Agatha Christie and Raymond Chandler, it considers other kinds of fiction where crime plays a substantial part, such as the thriller and spy fiction. It also includes chapters on the treatment of crime in the eighteenth-century literature, French and Victorian fiction, women and black...
More DescriptionThis Companion covers British and American crime fiction from the eighteenth century to the end of the twentieth. As well as discussing the 'detective' fiction of writers like Arthur Conan Doyle, Agatha Christie and Raymond Chandler, it considers other kinds of fiction where crime plays a substantial part, such as the thriller and spy fiction. It also includes chapters on the treatment of crime in the eighteenth-century literature, French and Victorian fiction, women and black detectives, crime on film and TV, police fiction and postmodernist uses of the detective form.