Studying Crime in Fiction

ISBN-13: 9780367742102 / Twarda / 2024 / 208 str.

Eric Sandberg

Opis

The primary aim of Studying Crime in Fiction: An Introduction is to introduce the emerging cross-disciplinary area of study that combines the two fields of crime fiction studies and criminology.

Spis treści

Introduction   

 

Section 1: Orient You          

Chapter 1: A History of Crime          

Chapter 2: A History of Criminology

Chapter 3: A History of Crime Fiction         

Chapter 4: A History of Crime Fiction Studies         

Chapter 5: The Criminology of Crime Fiction          

 

Section 2: ‘Equip You’        

Chapter 6: Defining Crime    

Chapter 7: Explaining Crime

Chapter 8: Investigating Crime         

Chapter 9: Experiencing Crime         

Chapter 10: Punishing Crime

 

Section 3 ‘Enable You’        

Case Study 1: Arthur Conan Doyle’s The Sign of Four­­­­––Imperial Crimes 

Case Study 2: Agatha Christie’s Crooked House––Family Crimes

Case Study 3: Walter Mosley’s Devil in a Blue Dress––Racial Crimes      

Case Study 4: Maj Sjöwall and Per Wahlöö’s The Man on the Balcony––Social Crimes

Case Study 5: Neal Stephenson’s Zodiac––Environmental Crimes 

Case Study 6: Natsuo Kirino’s Out­­––Gendered Crimes       

O autorze

Eric Sandberg completed his PhD at the University of Edinburgh, and has held positions at universities in Turkey, Japan, and Finland. He is currently an Associate Professor at City University of Hong Kong, and is also a Docent at the University of Oulu, Finland. His research interests range from modernism to the contemporary novel, with a particular focus on crime fiction, adaptation, and nostalgia studies. He has written and edited six books, and his essays have appeared in numerous edited collections, and in journals including Ariel, The Cambridge Quarterly, Journal of Modern Literature, Critique, Neohelicon, and Textual Practice.