Contemporary American Crime Fiction,9780333674550

Contemporary American Crime Fiction

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ISBN13: 9780333674550
ISBN10: 0333674553
Format: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2001-12-14
Publisher(s): Palgrave Macmillan
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Summary

This accessible, lively, and informative study gives a clear, comprehensive overview of recent trends in American crime fiction. Building on a discussion of the immediate predecessors, Bertens and D'haen focus on the work of popular and award-winning authors of the last 15 years. Particular attention is given to writers who have reworked established conventions and explored new directions, especially women and those from ethnic minorities.

Author Biography

Hans Bertens is Professor of Comparative Literature at Utrecht University. Theo D'haen is Professor of English and American Literature at Leiden University.

Table of Contents

List of Writers and Detectives
vii
Preface ix
Introduction
1(16)
The Old Guard in the mid-1990s: Muller, Grafton, and Paretsky
17(22)
Marcia Muller and Sharon McCone
18(6)
Sue Grafton and Kinsey Millhone
24(5)
Sara Paretsky and V.I. Warshawski
29(10)
The Old Guard Continued: Kaminsky, Parker, and Block
39(19)
Stuart Kaminsky and Porfiry Rostnikov
40(3)
Robert B. Parker and Spenser
43(7)
Lawrence Block and Matt Scudder
50(8)
The Personal and the Regional: New Forms of Authenticity in Female Crime Writing
58(19)
Private matters
58(9)
Regionalism
67(10)
Three Pictures from the Institution: Forrest, Barr, and Hightower
77(19)
Katherine V. Forrest's lesbian cop
79(5)
Nevada Barr's Park Ranger
84(7)
Lynn S. Hightower's single parent
91(5)
Los Angeles Police Department: Ellroy's and Connelly's Police Procedurals
96(17)
James Ellroy
96(9)
Michael Connelly
105(8)
Private Investigation in the 1990s
113(16)
Marlowe at the end of the millennium
113(5)
America as grotesque
118(4)
On the ball
122(2)
High jinks in Trenton
124(5)
The `English Tradition' in Contemporary American Crime Fiction
129(17)
Martha Grimes, Long Piddleton, and the twelfth Viscount Ardry
130(4)
Elizabeth George, the eighth Earl of Asherton, and Acton, North London
134(12)
Historical Mysteries
146(14)
Ancient Rome
149(2)
Historical New York
151(2)
New England
153(1)
Seneca Falls and the rights of women
154(2)
New York revisited
156(4)
In Waco's Wake: Patricia Cornwell and Mary Willis Walker
160(15)
Mary Willis Walker
161(8)
Patricia Cornwell
169(6)
`Other' Detectives: the Emergence of Ethnic Crime Writing
175(15)
Contemporary ethnic detectives
176(2)
African American crime writing: Walter Mosley's Easy Rawlins
178(5)
Dale Furutani's Ken Tanaka
183(2)
Twice marginalized: ethnicity and sexuality
185(3)
The past revisited: Robert Skinner's Skin Deep, Blood Red
188(2)
Black Female Crime Writing
190(16)
South and north: Barbara Neely's Blanche
191(5)
Middle class detection in Sacramento
196(5)
Reunion in Blue River
201(2)
Black female PI in Newark
203(3)
The Persistence of Gender: the Private Investigators of S.J. Rozan
206(9)
Primary Bibliography 215(7)
Select Secondary Bibliography 222(3)
Index 225

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