Routledge Companion to Crime Fiction

<p>The <i>Routledge Companion to Crime Fiction </i>is a comprehensive introduction to crime fiction and crime fiction scholarship today. Across forty-five original chapters, specialists in the field offer innovative approaches to the classics of the genre as well as ground-breaking mappings of emerging themes and trends.</p><p>The volume is divided into three parts. Part I, <i>Approaches,</i> rearticulates the key theoretical questions posed by the crime genre. Part II, <i>Devices,</i> examines the textual characteristics of the genre. Part III, <em>Interfaces</em>, investigates the complex ways in which crime fiction engages with the defining issues of its context – from policing and forensic science through war, migration and narcotics to digital media and the environment. </p><p>Engagingly written and drawing on examples from around the world, this volume is indispensable to both students and scholars of crime fiction. </p> <p>Contents</p><p>List of Contributors </p><p>Acknowledgements</p><p>Introduction: New Directions in Crime Fiction Scholarship</p><p>Janice Allan, Jesper Gulddal, Stewart King and Andrew Pepper </p><p>Part I: Approaches</p><ol> <p> </p> <li>Genre</li> <i> </i><p>Jesper Gulddal and Stewart King</p> <p> </p> <li>Counterhistories and Prehistories</li> <i> </i><p>Maurizio Ascari</p> <p> </p> <li>The Crime Fiction Series</li> <i> </i><p>Ruth Mayer</p> <p> </p> <li>Crime Fiction in the Marketplace</li> <i> </i><p>Emmett Stinson</p> <p> </p> <li>Adaptations</li> <i> </i><p>Neil McCaw</p> <p> </p> <li>Hybridisation</li> <i> </i><p>Heather Duerre Humann</p> <p> </p> <li>Graphic Crime Novels</li> <i> </i><p>Robert Prickett and Casey A. Cothran</p> <p> </p> <li>World Literature</li> <i> </i><p>Jakob Stougaard-Nielsen</p> <p> </p> <li>Translation</li> <i> </i><p>Karen Seago and Victoria Lei</p> <p> </p> <li>Transnationality</li> <i> </i><p>Barbara Pezzotti</p> <p> </p> <li>Gender and Sexuality </li> <i> </i><p>Gill Plain</p> <p> </p> <li>Race and Ethnicity</li> <i> </i><p>Sam Naidu</p> <p> </p> <li>Coloniality and Decoloniality</li> <i> </i><p>Shampa Roy</p> <p> </p> <li>Psychoanalysis</li> <i> </i><p>Heta Pyrhönen</p> <b> </b><p>Part II: Devices</p> <p> </p> <li>Murders</li> <i> </i><p>Michael Harris-Peyton</p> <p> </p> <li>Victims</li> <i> </i><p>Rebecca Mills</p> <p> </p> <li>Detectives</li> <i> </i><p>David Geherin</p> <p> </p> <li>Criminals</li> <i> </i><p>Christiana Gregoriou</p> <p> </p> <li>Beginnings and Endings</li> <i> </i><p>Alistair Rolls</p> <p> </p> <li>Plotting</li> <i> </i><p>Martin Edwards</p> <p> </p> <li>Clues</li> <i> </i><p>Jesper Gulddal</p> <p> </p> <li>Realism</li> <i> </i><p>Paul Cobley</p> <p> </p> <li>Place</li> <i> </i><p>Stewart King</p> <p> </p> <li>Time and Space</li> <i> </i><p>Thomas Heise</p> <p> </p> <li>Self-referentiality and Metafiction</li> <i> </i><p>J. C. Bernthal</p> <p> </p> <li>Paratextuality</li> <i> </i><p>Louise Nilsson</p> <p> </p> <li>Affect</li> <i> </i><p>Christopher Breu</p> <p> </p> <li>Alterity and the Other</li> <i> </i><p>Jean Anderson</p> <p> </p> <li>Digital Technology</li> <i> </i><p>Nicole Kenley</p> <b> </b><p>Part III Interfaces</p> <p> </p> <li>Crime Fiction and Criminology</li> <i> </i><p>Matthew Levay</p> <p> </p> <li>Crime Fiction and Theories of Justice</li> <i> </i><p>Susanna Lee</p> <p> </p> <li>Crime Fiction and Modern Science</li> <i> </i><p>Andrea Goulet</p> <p> </p> <li>Crime Fiction and the Police</li> <i> </i><p>Andrew Nestingen</p> <p> </p> <li>Crime Fiction and Memory</li> <i> </i><p>Kate M. Quinn</p> <p> </p> <li>Crime Fiction and Trauma</li> <i> </i><p>Cynthia S. Hamilton</p> <p> </p> <li>Crime Fiction and Politics</li> <i> </i><p>José V. Saval</p> <p> </p> <li>Crime Fiction and the City</li> <i> </i><p>Eric Sandberg</p> <p> </p> <li>Crime Fiction and War</li> <i> </i><p>Patrick Deer</p> <p> </p> <li>Crime Fiction and Global Capital</li> <i> </i><p>Andrew Pepper</p> <p> </p> <li>Crime Fiction and the Environment</li> <i> </i><p>Marta Puxan-Oliva</p> <p> </p> <li>Crime Fiction and Narcotics</li> <i> </i><p>Andrew Pepper</p> <p> </p> <li>Crime Fiction and Migration</li> <i> </i><p>Charlotte Beyer</p> <p> </p> <li>Crime Fiction and Authoritarianism</li> <i> </i><p>Carlos Uxó</p> <p> </p> <li>Crime Fiction and Digital Media</li> <i> </i><p>Tanja Välisalo, Maarit Piipponen, Helen Mäntymäki and Aino-Kaisa Koistinen</p> <p> </p> <li>Crime Fiction and the Future<br><i>Nicoletta Vallorani</i> </li> </ol><p>Index</p>