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Author:   Jesper Gulddal ,  Alistair Rolls ,  Stewart King
Publisher:   Liverpool University Press
Imprint:   Liverpool University Press
Volume:   78
ISBN:  

9781789620580

ISBN 10:   1789620589
Pages:   228
Publication Date:   26 November 2019
Audience:   General/trade ,  Professional and scholarly ,  General ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Introduction: Criminal Moves: Towards a Theory of Crime Fiction Mobility Jesper Gulddal, Stewart King and Alistair Rolls Mobility of Meaning 1. Behind the Locked Door: Leblanc, Leroux and the Anxieties of the Belle Époque Jean Fornasiero and John West-Sooby 2. Moving Fergus Hume’s The Mystery of a Hansom Cab and Breaking the Frame of Poe’s 'The Murders in the Rue Morgue’ Alistair Rolls 3. Reading Affects in Raymond Chandler’s The Big Sleep Heta Pyrhönen 4. Contradicting the Golden Age: Reading Agatha Christie in the Twenty-First Century Merja Makinen Mobility of Genre 5. Criminal Minds: Reassessing the Origins of the Psycho-Thriller Maurizio Ascari 6. Foggy Muddle: Narrative, Contingency and Genre Mobility in Dashiell Hammett’s The Dain Curse Jesper Gulddal 7. Burma’s Bagnoles: Urban Modernity and the Automotive Saccadism of Léo Malet’s Nouveaux mystères de Paris (1954-1959) Andrea Goulet 8. Secrecy and Transparency in Hideo Yokoyama’s Six Four Andrew Pepper Transnational Mobility 9. The Reader and World Crime Fiction: The (Private) Eye of the Beholder Stewart King 10. From Vidocq to the Locked Room: International Connections in Nineteenth-Century Crime Fiction Stephen Knight 11. Brain Attics and Mind Weapons: Investigative Spaces, Mobility and Transcultural Adaptations of Detective Fiction Michael B. Harris-Peyton 

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Reviews'The three editors of this rich collective volume are driven by the ambitious desire to radically revise crime fiction studies, sweeping away existing prejudices and providing a new conceptual framework to the study of the genre... in a few years, this work will be acknowledged as a turning point in the history of crime scholarship.' Stefano Serafini, Linguae & 'Criminal Moves is an excellent resource for scholars who are reconsidering how they research and teach foundational texts in the crime fiction genre. It can also help readers identify ways to analyse and appreciate transnational works outside of the traditional British-American canon without confining them to a fixed taxonomy.' Jennifer Schnabel, Crime Fiction Studies 'Criminal Moves is an exciting venture. [...] It asks provocative questions about the transparency of narrative. [...] It is the reader, as consumer and companion of the detective and author, who is at the core of the experience. Also, the issue of the reader's gaze and attention are important considerations.'Fred Isaac, Clues

Reviews'The three editors of this rich collective volume are driven by the ambitious desire to radically revise crime fiction studies, sweeping away existing prejudices and providing a new conceptual framework to the study of the genre... in a few years, this work will be acknowledged as a turning point in the history of crime scholarship.' Stefano Serafini, Linguae & 'Criminal Moves is an excellent resource for scholars who are reconsidering how they research and teach foundational texts in the crime fiction genre. It can also help readers identify ways to analyse and appreciate transnational works outside of the traditional British-American canon without confining them to a fixed taxonomy.' Jennifer Schnabel, Crime Fiction Studies

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Jesper Gulddal is Associate Professor in Literary Studies at the University of Newcastle, Australia. Alistair Rolls is Associate Professor of French Studies at the University of Newcastle, Australia. Stewart King is Senior Lecturer in Spanish and Catalan Studies at Monash University, Australia.

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