Twentieth-Century Crime Fiction

ISBN: 9780199253265 出版年：2005 页码：326 Horsley, Lee Oxford University Press

1. CLASSIC DETECTIVE FICTION The turn of the century: Sherlock Holmes and his contemporaries Classic detection in the interwar years Transforming the tradition in the 1950s and 1960s 2. HARD-BOILED DETECTIVE FICTION The Black Mask boys The mid-century paperback revolution Contemporary investigations 3. TRANSGRESSION AND PATHOLOGY The Prohibition-era gangsters The killers inside us Serial killers, pathologists, and police procedurals 4. CRIME FICTION AS SOCIO-POLITICAL CRITIQUE Despairing of the Depression Despoiling Florida The politics of self-enrichment 5. BLACK APPROPRIATIONS 'A Harlem of my mind' Writing the other Los Angeles Diasporic identities in contemporary Britain Detectives, mammies, bitches, and whores 6. REGENDERING THE GENRE Mothering feminist crime fiction in the 1970s Butch vs. femme in the Reganite '80s Unsolved crimes of the '90s Into the twenty-first century