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04866aam a2200457 i 4500 001 9DC73BF4580511E8A8F83C5097128E48 003 SILO 005 20180515010114 008 170905s2017 nyu b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2017033139 020 $a 1107131014 020 $a 9781107131019 035 $a (OCoLC)994477020 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d YDX $d OCLCF $d OCLCO $d OCLCQ $d ERASA $d KBC $d TXM $d BNG $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a n-us--- 050 00 $a PS374.D4 $b H57 2017 082 00 $a 813/.087209 $2 23 245 02 $a A history of American crime fiction / $c edited by Chris Raczkowski. 264 1 $a New York : $b Cambridge University Press, $c 2017. 300 $a x, 363 pages ; $c 24 cm 520 $a "A History of American Crime Fiction places crime fiction within a context of aesthetic practices and experiments, intellectual concerns, and historical debates generally reserved for canonical literary history. Toward that end, the book is divided into sections that reflect the periods that commonly organize American literary history, with chapters highlighting crime fiction's reciprocal relationships with early American literature, romanticism, realism, modernism and postmodernism. It surveys everything from 17th-century execution sermons, the detective fiction of Harriet Spofford and T.S. Eliot's The Waste Land, to the films of David Lynch, HBO's The Sopranos, and the podcast Serial, while engaging a wide variety of critical methods. As a result, this book expands crime fiction's significance beyond the boundaries of popular genres and explores the symbiosis between crime fiction and canonical literature that sustains and energizes both"-- $c Provided by publisher. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 505 8 $a Machine generated contents note: Introduction Chris Raczkowski; Part I. Early American Era: 1. From sermon to story: early American crime literature Jodi Schorb and Daniel E. Williams; 2. The theft of authorship: crime narrative in post-revolutionary early American literature Jodi Schorb and Daniel E. Williams; Part II. Romantic Era: 3. Crime journalism and the urban Gothic novel Matthew Warner Osborn; 4. Crime and American romanticism Timothy Helwig; 5. The Dark transactions of a Black? Slave narratives in the crime literature tradition Jeannine Marie DeLombard; 6. Edgar Allan Poe and the emergence of the literary detective Paul Grimstad; Part III. Realist Era: 7. The rise of the professional detective and the dime detective Pamela Bedore; 8. Home and away: reinvestigating domestic detective fiction Jon Blandford; 9. The rise of the American woman detective: gender and the detective genre in Green, Doyle, and Rinehart Ellen Burton Harrington; 10. 505 8 $a Crime, science, realism John Dudley; Part IV. Modernist Era: 11. Criminal modernism Chris Raczkowski; 12. American golden age crime fiction Malcah Effron; 13. Red Harvest: hard-boiled crime fiction and the fate of left populism Justus Nieland; 14. Stateless mothers/motherless states: the femme fatale on the threshold of American citizenship Paula Rabinowitz; 15. One of us: the emergence of the psychopathological protagonist Frederick Whiting; Part V. Postmodernist Era: 16. Unusual suspects: American crimes, metaphysical detectives, postmodernist genres Susan Elizabeth Sweeney; 17. Identity politics and crime fiction Michael Millner; 18. American detective fiction and settler colonialism James H. Cox; 19. African American crime and detective fiction Justin Gifford; 20. Criminal family drama before and after The Sopranos Dean DeFino; 21. Making murderers: the evolution of true crime Jean Murley; 22. Spy narratives in post 9/11 American culture Andrew Pepper; 23. 505 8 $a Film noir and neo-noir Will Scheibel; 24. Crime fiction television David Bianculli; 25. Dead reckonings: theoretical and critical approaches to detective fiction Christopher Breu. 650 0 $a Detective and mystery stories, American $x History and criticism. 650 0 $a Crime in literature. 650 0 $a Detectives in literature. 650 0 $a Detective and mystery films $x History and criticism. 650 0 $a Detective and mystery television programs $x History and criticism. 650 7 $a Crime in literature. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00883038 650 7 $a Detective and mystery films. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00891450 650 7 $a Detective and mystery stories, American. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00891483 650 7 $a Detective and mystery television programs. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00891577 650 7 $a Detectives in literature. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00891589 655 7 $a Criticism, interpretation, etc. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01411635 700 1 $a Raczkowski, Chris, $d 1969- $e editor. 941 $a 1 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20181116060007.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=9DC73BF4580511E8A8F83C5097128E48Initiate Another SILO Locator Search