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Key Concepts in Crime Fiction

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An insight into a popular yet complex genre that has developed over the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The volume explores the contemporary anxieties to which crime fiction responds, along with society's changing conceptions of crime and criminality.

Author(s): Heather; Worthington
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Year: 2011

Language: English
Pages: 256
Tags: Crime Fiction

Halftitle
Title Page
Copyright
Dedication
Contents
General Editor’s Preface
General Introduction
1 Contexts: History, Politics, Culture
Introduction
Cities and urbanisation
Crime and criminality
Detectives and detection
Evidence
Gender and sexuality
The law
Police and policing
Race, colour and creed
2 Texts: Themes, Issues, Concepts
Introduction
American crime fiction
Children’s crime fiction
Early criminography
Feminist crime fiction
Golden-Age crime fiction
Hard-boiled detective fiction
Historical crime fiction
The police procedural
3 Criticism: Approaches, Theory, Practice
Introduction
Cultural materialism
Feminism
Postcolonialism
Postmodernism
Chronology
Index