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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      27 October 2017
      26 October 2017
      ISBN:
      9781316442975
      9781107131019
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/9781316442975
      Dimensions:
      (229 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.65kg, 372 Pages
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      • Subjects:
      Literature, Area Studies, American Literature, American Studies
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    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.

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    'Starting with the Puritans and continuing through to the present day, this collection comprises 25 original essays on American crime fiction, including film and television (The Sopranos and others). Raczkowski (Univ. of South Alabama) goes beyond the usual generic markers of crime fiction …'

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    '… this informed, substantive collection does leave us questioning the profiles and line-ups through which we more typically organize its important objects of inquiry. In this respect, the future histories of crime fiction seem well in hand.'

    Christopher P. Wilson Source: American Literary History

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