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020			_a9780521199377 (hardback)
020			_a0521199379 (hardback)
020			_a9780521136068 (pbk.)
020			_a0521136067 (pbk.)
035			_a(OCoLC)ocn499740949
050	0	0	_aPS374.D4 _bC35 2010
082	0	0	_a813.087 _222
245	0	4	_aThe Cambridge companion to American crime fiction
246	3	0	_aCompanion to American crime fiction
246	3	0	_aAmerican crime fiction
260			_aCambridge ; _aNew York : _bCambridge University Press, _c2010.
300			_axii, 190 p. ; _c24 cm.
490	1		_aCambridge companions to literature
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505	0		_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.
520			_a"From 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"--Provided by publisher.
520			_a"When coroners and medical examiners decide that the corpse before them is the victim of homicide, they announce their findings with a ringing locution: "by a person or persons unknown." And while the identity of the killer may truly be a cipher in the real world, within the confines of a detective novel, the perpetrator is known to us. He or she is hiding in plain sight among the array of characters in the book"--Provided by publisher.
650		0	_aDetective and mystery stories, American _xHistory and criticism. _920353
700	1		_aNickerson, Catherine Ross. _920354
830		0	_aCambridge companions to literature _9712
856	4	2	_3Cover image _uhttp://assets.cambridge.org/97805211/99377/cover/9780521199377.jpg
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955			_bxj12 2010-01-12 _cxj12 2010-01-12 ONIX (telework) to Lit. Section _axe09 2010-11-24 2 copies rec'd., to CIP ver.
999			_c9783 _d9783