The Cambridge Companion to Crime Fiction (Cambridge Companions to Literature) PDF
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This page intentionally left blank TheCambridgeCompaniontoCrimeFiction The Cambridge Companion to Crime Fiction covers British and American crimefictionfromtheeighteenthcenturytotheendofthetwentieth.Aswell asdiscussingthe‘detective’fictionofwriterslikeArthurConanDoyle,Agatha ChristieandRaymondChandler,itconsidersotherkindsoffictionwherecrime plays a substantial part, such as the thriller and spy fiction. It also includes chapters on the treatment of crime in eighteenth-century literature, French andVictorianfiction,womenandblackdetectives,crimeinfilmandonTV, police fiction and postmodernist uses of the detective form. The collection, byaninternationalteamofestablishedspecialists,offersstudentsinvaluable referencematerialincludingachronologyandguidestofurtherreading.The volumeaimstoensurethatitsreaderswillbegroundedinthehistoryofcrime fictionanditscriticalreception. THE CAMBRIDGE COMPANION TO CRIME FICTION MARTIN PRIESTMAN cambridge university press Cambridge,NewYork,Melbourne,Madrid,CapeTown,Singapore,SãoPaulo Cambridge University Press TheEdinburghBuilding,Cambridgecb22ru,UK PublishedintheUnitedStatesofAmericabyCambridgeUniversityPress,NewYork www.cambridge.org Informationon this title: www.cambridge.org/9780521803991 © Cambridge University Press 2003 Thispublicationisincopyright.Subjecttostatutoryexceptionandtotheprovisionof relevantcollectivelicensingagreements,noreproductionofanypartmaytakeplace withoutthewrittenpermissionofCambridgeUniversityPress. 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CONTENTS Notes on contributors page vii Crimefiction:achronology x Introduction:crimefictionanddetectivefiction 1 martin priestman 1 Eighteenth-centurycrimewriting 7 ian a. bell 2 TheNewgatenovelandsensationfiction,1830–1868 19 lyn pykett 3 TheshortstoryfromPoetoChesterton 41 martin a. kayman 4 Frenchcrimefiction 59 sita a. schu¨tt 5 Thegoldenage 77 stephen knight 6 Theprivateeye 95 dennis porter 7 Spyfiction 115 david seed 8 Thethriller 135 david glover v contents 9 Post-warAmericanpolicefiction 155 leroy l. panek 10 Post-warBritishcrimefiction 173 martin priestman 11 Womendetectives 191 maureen t. reddy 12 Blackcrimefiction 209 andrew pepper 13 CrimeinfilmandonTV 227 nickianne moody 14 Detectionandliteraryfiction 245 laura marcus Guidetoreading 269 Index 277 vi NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS ian a. bell isProfessorandHeadofEnglishattheUniversityofWales, Swansea. His main publications include Literature and Crime in Augustan England(1981),Defoe’sFiction(1985)andHenryFielding:Authorshipand Authority (1994). He has written extensively on eighteenth-century litera- ture,Scottishliteratureandcrimefiction. david glover is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of English at the University of Southampton. He is the author of Vampires, Mummies, and Liberals: Bram Stoker and the Politics of Popular Fiction (1996). His most recent book, co-authored with Cora Kaplan, is Genders (2000). He is cur- rentlyworkingonaculturalhistoryofthe1905AliensAct. martin a. kayman isaProfessorintheCentreforCriticalandCultural TheoryatCardiffUniversity,whereheteachesCulturalCriticismandEnglish Literature. He is the author of From Bow Street to Baker Street: Mystery, Detection, Narrative (1992) and of various articles on law and literature. From1997to2003hewastheeditoroftheEuropeanEnglishMessenger. stephen knight,aProfessorofEnglishLiteratureatCardiffUniversity, istheauthorofFormandIdeologyinCrimeFiction (1980)andContinent of Mystery: A Thematic History of Australian Crime Fiction (1997). His mostrecentbooksareRobinHood:AMythicBiographyandCrimeFiction, 1800–2000:Detection,Death,Diversity(both2003).Hehaswrittenessays andtaughtcoursesoncrimefictionforsometimeandwasfor10yearsthe crimefictionrevieweroftheSydneyMorningHerald. laura marcus isaReaderinEnglishattheUniversityofSussex.Shehas published widely on nineteenth- and twentieth-century literature and cul- ture.RecentbooksincludeAuto/biographicalDiscourses:Criticism,Theory, Practice(1998)andshehaseditedMarieBellocLowndes’TheLodger(1996) and Twelve Women Detective Stories (1997). She is currently writing a vii notes on contributors book on cinema and modernism, and co-editing The Cambridge History ofTwentieth-CenturyEnglishLiterature. nickianne moody isHeadofMediaandCulturalStudiesatLiverpool JohnMooresUniversity.SheisaconvenoroftheAssociationforResearchin PopularFictionandeditorofitsjournalDiegesis.Shehasco-editedMedical Fictions (1998) and Consuming Pleasure (2000), and published widely on film,TV,sciencefiction,fantasyandromanceaswellascrimefiction. leroy l. panek is Professor of English and Chair of the English de- partment at McDaniel College, Maryland. He has written extensively on popularfiction:recentbooksincludeTheAmericanPoliceNovel:AHistory (2003) and New Hard-boiled Writers: 1970s–1990s (2000). His Watteau’s Shepherds: The Detective Novel in Britain (1979) and his Introduction to theDetectiveStory(1987)bothreceivedEdgarAllanPoeAwardsfromthe Mystery Writers of America; he has also received the George Dove Award fromthePopularCultureAssociationofAmerica. andrew pepper is a Lecturer in English and American Literature at Queen’sUniversityBelfastandauthorofTheContemporaryAmericanCrime Novel:Race,Ethnicity,Gender,Class(2000).Heiscurrentlyworkingona criticalhistoryofcrimefictiontobepublishedbyPalgrave. dennis porter wasuntilrecentlyProfessorofFrenchandComparative Literature at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. His books include ThePursuitofCrime:ArtandIdeologyinDetectiveFiction(1981),Haunted Journeys:DesireandTransgressioninEuropeanTravelWriting(1991),and Rousseau’s Legacy: Emergence and Eclipse of the Writer in France (1995). Inrecentyearshehasdevotedmostofhiswritinglifetoworksforthestage, andistherecipientofanumberofawardsinthefield. martin priestman isaProfessorofEnglishatRoehamptonUniversity of Surrey. Books on crime fiction include Detective Fiction and Literature: TheFigureontheCarpet(1990)andCrimeFictionfromPoetothePresent (1998).HehasalsopublishedCowper’sTaskStructureandInfluence(1983) and Romantic Atheism: Poetry and Freethought, 1780–1830 (1999). He is currentlyeditingtheworksofCharlesDarwin’sgrandfather,Erasmus. lyn pykett isaProfessorofEnglishandProVice-ChancellorattheUni- versityofWalesAberystwyth.Shehaswrittennumerousbooksandarticles on nineteenth- and early twentieth-century fiction and culture. Her books includeTheImproperFeminine:TheWomen’sSensationNovelandtheNew WomanWriting(1992),TheSensationNovelfrom‘TheWomaninWhite’ to‘TheMoonstone’(1994),andEngenderingFictions:TheEnglishNovelin viii
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