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245 04 $aThe Cambridge companion to American crime fiction /$cedited by Catherine Ross Nickerson.
246 30 $aCompanion to American crime fiction
246 30 $aAmerican crime fiction
260 $aCambridge ;$aNew York :$bCambridge University Press,$c2010.
300 $axii, 190 p. ;$c24 cm.
490 1 $aCambridge companions to literature
520 $a"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 students as well as readers of crime fiction, demonstrate the very best in contemporary scholarship and challenge long-established notions of the development of the detective novel. Each chapter covers a sub-genre, from 'true crime' to hard-boiled novels, illustrating the ways in which 'popular' and 'high' literary genres influence and shape each other. With a chronology and guide to further reading, the Companion is a helpful guide for students of American literature and readers of crime fiction"--Provided by publisher.
520 $a"When coroners and medical examiners decide that the corpse before them is the victim of homicide, they announce their findings with a ringing locution: "by a person or persons unknown." And while the identity of the killer may truly be a cipher in the real world, within the confines of a detective novel, the perpetrator is known to us. He or she is hiding in plain sight among the array of characters in the book"--Provided by publisher.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 $aIntroduction : 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.
650 0 $aDetective and mystery stories, American$xHistory and criticism.
700 1 $aNickerson, Catherine Ross.
830 0 $aCambridge companions to literature
856 42 $3Cover image$uhttp://assets.cambridge.org/97805211/99377/cover/9780521199377.jpg