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A companion to crime fiction
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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From Sherlock Holmes to the Present
This chapter contains sections titled:
Investigators
Transgressors
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Hard‐Boiled/Noir Fiction
This chapter contains sections titled:
Black Mask and Early Hard‐Boiled Crime Fiction
Postwar America and the Paperback Revolution
Some Contemporary Transformations
References and Further Reading
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\MÈRES FATALES\: MATERNAL GUILT IN THE NOIR CRIME NOVEL
It is argued that the coupling of \"noir\" conventions with the interest in maternal subjectivity has characterized the work of a number of female crime writers. Barbara Vine's \"A Dark-Adapted Eye\" and P. D. James's \"Innocent Blood\" are two of the novels analyzed.
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