A Companion to Crime Fiction presents the definitive guide to this popular genre from its origins in the eighteenth century to the present day. It brings together a series of forty-seven original essays from some of the world's leading authorities. Editor(s): Rzepka, Charles J.; Horsley, Lee. Series: Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture. Num Pages: 648 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSK. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 253 x 177 x 39. Weight in Grams: 1292. . 2010. 1st Edition. Hardcover. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

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Title: A Companion to Crime Fiction
Publisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Publication Date: 2010
Language: English
ISBN 10: 1405167653
ISBN 13: 9781405167659
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: New

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A Companion to Crime Fiction presents the definitive guide to this popular genre from its origins in the eighteenth century to the present day

A collection of forty-seven newly commissioned essays from a team of leading scholars across the globe make this Companion the definitive guide to crime fiction
Follows the development of the genre from its origins in the eighteenth century through to its phenomenal present day popularity
Features full-length critical essays on the most significant authors and film-makers, from Arthur Conan Doyle and Dashiell Hammett to Alfred Hitchcock and Martin Scorsese exploring the ways in which they have shaped and influenced the field
Includes extensive references to the most up-to-date scholarship, and a comprehensive bibliography

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Charles Rzepka is Professor of English at Boston University, where he teaches and writes on British Romanticism, popular culture, and detective and crime fiction. His publications include The Self as Mind (1986), Sacramental Commodities (1995), Detective Fiction (2005), and Essays, Inventions, Interventions (2010).

Lee Horsley is Reader in Literature and Culture at Lancaster University, where she teaches two specialist crime courses. Her publications include Political Fiction and the Historical Imagination (1990), Fictions of Power in English Literature 1900-1950 (1995) Twentieth-Century Crime Fiction (2005), and an expanded paperback edition of the 2001 publication The Noir Thriller (2009).

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