LEADER 03544nam 22005292 450 001 996202481803316 005 20151109030845.0 010 $a1-139-80097-3 010 $a0-511-76284-4 035 $a(CKB)2590000000003614 035 $a(MH)012585396-3 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000456008 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11268167 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000456008 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10401417 035 $a(PQKB)11222159 035 $a(UkCbUP)CR9780511762840 035 $a(UK-CbPIL)2050500 035 $a(EXLCZ)992590000000003614 100 $a20100506d2010|||| uy| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 04$aThe Cambridge companion to American crime fiction /$fedited by Catherine Ross Nickerson$b[electronic resource] 210 1$aCambridge :$cCambridge University Press,$d2010. 215 $a1 online resource (xii, 190 pages) $cdigital, PDF file(s) 225 1 $aCambridge companions to literature 300 $aTitle from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 09 Nov 2015). 311 $a0-521-13606-7 311 $a0-521-19937-9 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $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. 330 $aFrom the execution sermons of the Colonial era to television programs like The Wire and The Sopranos, crime writing has played an important role in American culture. Its ability to register fear, desire and anxiety has made it a popular genre with a wide audience. These new essays, written for students as well as readers of crime fiction, demonstrate the very best in contemporary scholarship and challenge long-established notions of the development of the detective novel. Each chapter covers a sub-genre, from 'true crime' to hard-boiled novels, illustrating the ways in which 'popular' and 'high' literary genres influence and shape each other. With a chronology and guide to further reading, the Companion is a helpful guide for students of American literature and readers of crime fiction. 410 0$aCambridge companions to literature. 606 $aDetective and mystery stories, American$xHistory and criticism 615 0$aDetective and mystery stories, American$xHistory and criticism. 676 $a813/.087209 702 $aNickerson$b Catherine Ross 801 0$bUkCbUP 801 1$bUkCbUP 906 $aBOOK 912 $a996202481803316 996 $aThe Cambridge companion to American crime fiction$92493207 997 $aUNISA 999 $aThis Record contains information from the Harvard Library Bibliographic Dataset, which is provided by the Harvard Library under its Bibliographic Dataset Use Terms and includes data made available by, among others the Library of Congress