The Cambridge companion to American crime fiction / edited by Catherine Ross Nickerson.
"From the execution sermons of the Colonial era to television programs like The Wire and The Sopranos, crime writing has played an important role in American culture. Its ability to register fear, desire and anxiety has made it a popular genre with a wide audience. These new essays, written for...
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| Alternate Title: | Companion to American crime fiction. |
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Published: | Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2010. |
| Series: | Cambridge companions to literature.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction : the satisfactions of murder / Catherine Ross Nickerson
- Early American crime writing / Sara Crosby
- Poe and the origins of detective fiction / Stephen Rachman
- Women writers before 1960 / Catherine Ross Nickerson
- The hard-boiled novel / Sean McCann
- The American roman noir / Andrew Pepper
- Teenage detectives and teenage delinquents / Ilana Nash
- American spy fiction / David Seed
- The police procedural in literature and on television / Eddy von Mueller
- Mafia stories and the American gangster / Fred L. Gardaphe
- True crime / Laura Browder
- Race and American crime fiction / Maureen T. Reddy
- Feminist crime fiction / Margaret Kinsman
- Crime in postmodernist fiction / Susan Elizabeth Sweeney.