ABSTRACT

The Routledge Companion to Crime Fiction is a comprehensive introduction to crime fiction and crime fiction scholarship today. Across 45 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.

　

　

The volume is divided into three parts. Part I, Approaches, rearticulates the key theoretical questions posed by the crime genre. Part II, Devices, examines the textual characteristics of crime fiction. Part III, Interfaces 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.

　

　

Rigorously argued and engagingly written, the volume is indispensable both to students and scholars of crime fiction.

Introduction: New Directions in Crime Fiction Scholarship

Janice Allan, Jesper Gulddal, Stewart King and Andrew Pepper

Part 1 Approaches

  1. Genre

    2. Jesper Gulddal and Stewart King

  2. Counterhistories and Prehistories

    3. Maurizio Ascari

  3. The Crime Fiction Series

    4. Ruth Mayer

  4. Crime Fiction in the Marketplace

    5. Emmett Stinson

  5. Adaptations

    6. Neil McCaw

  6. Hybridisation

    7. Heather Duerre Humann

  7. Graphic Crime Novels

    8. Robert Prickett and Casey A. Cothran

  8. World Literature

    9. Jakob Stougaard-Nielsen

  9. Translation

    10. Karen Seago and Victoria Lei

  10. Transnationality

    11. Barbara Pezzotti

  11. Gender and Sexuality

    12. Gill Plain

  12. Race and Ethnicity

    13. Sam Naidu

  13. Coloniality and Decoloniality

    14. Shampa Roy

  14. Psychoanalysis

    15. Heta Pyrhönen

    Part 2 Devices

  15. Murders

    16. Michael Harris-Peyton

  16. Victims

    17. Rebecca Mills

  17. Detectives

    18. David Geherin

  18. Criminals

    19. Christiana Gregoriou

  19. Beginnings and Endings

    20. Alistair Rolls

  20. Plotting

    21. Martin Edwards

  21. Clues

    22. Jesper Gulddal

  22. Realism

    23. Paul Cobley

  23. Place

    24. Stewart King

  24. Time and Space

    25. Thomas Heise

  25. Self-referentiality and Metafiction

    26. J. C. Bernthal

  26. Paratextuality

    27. Louise Nilsson

  27. Affect

    28. Christopher Breu

  28. Alterity and the Other

    29. Jean Anderson

  29. Digital Technology

    30. Nicole Kenley

    Part 3 Interfaces

  30. Crime Fiction and Criminology

    31. Matthew Levay

  31. Crime Fiction and Theories of Justice

    32. Susanna Lee

  32. Crime Fiction and Modern Science

    33. Andrea Goulet

  33. Crime Fiction and the Police

    34. Andrew Nestingen

  34. Crime Fiction and Memory

    35. Kate M. Quinn

  35. Crime Fiction and Trauma

    36. Cynthia S. Hamilton

  36. Crime Fiction and Politics

    37. José V. Saval

  37. Crime Fiction and the City

    38. Eric Sandberg

  38. Crime Fiction and War

    39. Patrick Deer

  39. Crime Fiction and Global Capital

    40. Andrew Pepper

  40. Crime Fiction and the Environment

    41. Marta Puxan-Oliva

  41. Crime Fiction and Narcotics

    42. Andrew Pepper

  42. Crime Fiction and Migration

    43. Charlotte Beyer

  43. Crime Fiction and Authoritarianism

    44. Carlos Uxó

  44. Crime Fiction and Digital Media

    45. Tanja Välisalo, Maarit Piipponen, Helen Mäntymäki and Aino-Kaisa Koistinen

  45. Crime Fiction and the Future

Nicoletta Vallorani

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