Cargando…

Criminal moves : modes of mobility in crime fiction /

Criminal Moves: Modes of Mobility in Crime Fiction offers a major intervention into contemporary theoretical debates about crime fiction. It seeks to overturn the following preconceptions: that the genre does not warrant critical analysis, that genre norms and conventions matter more than textual in...

Descripción completa

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Liverpool : Liverpool University Press, 2019
Colección:Liverpool English texts and studies ; 78
Temas:
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Behind the locked door: Leblanc, Leroux and the anxieties of the Belle Époque / Jean Fornasiero and John West-Sooby
  • Moving Fergus Hume's The Mystery of a Hansom Cab and breaking the frame of Poe's 'The Murders in the Rue Morgue' / Alisair Rolls
  • Reading affects in Raymond Chandler's The Big Sleep / Heta Pyrhönen
  • Contradicting the Golden Age: reading Agatha Christie in the twenty-first century / Meria Makinen
  • Criminal minds: reassessing the origins of the psycho-thriller / Maurizio Ascari
  • Foggy muddle: narrative, contingency and genre mobility in Dashiell Hammett's The Dain Curse / Jesper Gulddal
  • Burma's Bagnoles: urban modernity and the automotive saccadism of Léo Malet's Nouveaux mystères de Paris (1954-1959) / Andrea Goulet
  • Secrecy and transparency in Hideo Yokoyama's Six Four / Andrew Pepper
  • From Vidocq to the locked room: international connections in nineteenth-century crime fiction / Stephen Knight
  • Brain attics and mind weapons: investigative spaces, mobility and transcultural adaptations of detective fiction / Michael B. Harris-Peyton
  • The reader and world crime fiction: the (private) eye of the beholder / Stewart King