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Author:   Šárka Bubíková ,  Olga Roebuck
Publisher:   McFarland & Co Inc
Imprint:   McFarland & Co Inc
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.00cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.268kg
ISBN:  

9781476687773

ISBN 10:   1476687773
Pages:   193
Publication Date:   03 March 2023
Recommended Age:   From 18 years
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand  
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Table of Contents

Table of Contents Preface Introduction Chapter One—The City 1.1. The Changing Role of the Urban Setting 1.1.1. Robert Galbraith’s London 1.1.2. Ian Rankin’s and Christopher Brookmyre’s Edinburgh 1.1.3. Denise Mina’s Glasgow 1.1.4. Joseph Knox’s Manchester 1.2. City as a Repository of Memories 1.3. Following and Mobility 1.4. American Urban Setting: City Domesticated 1.4.1. Sara Paretsky’s Chicago 1.4.2. Linda Barnes’s Boston 1.4.3. Les Roberts’s Cleveland 1.4.4. Laura Lippman’s Baltimore 1.5. City as a Temporal Entity: Memory and Urban Change 1.6. Walks, Drives and Surveillance Chapter Two—The Country 2.1. British Idyllic Countryside Questioned 2.2. The Idyllic Countryside of the Amish Farmland 2.3. Ambiguous Countryside: Martha’s Vineyard Chapter Three—The Wilderness 3.1. Wilderness as Literary Environment 3.1.1. The Southwest 3.1.2. Alaska 3.2. Outsiders in Wilderness: Tourists and Pets 3.3. Wilderness as a Literary Topos 3.4. Wilderness as Metaphysical and Mythological Landscapes Chapter Notes Works Cited Index

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...a complex, thorough, and insightful research asserting that traditional setting remains an important site of crime. --Alena Smieskova, associate professor of English and American Studies, Comenius University, Bratislava, Slovakia An impressive, complex approach to the role of place and community in crime fiction. --Dr. Elzbieta Perkowska-Gawlik, assistant professor, department of English and American Studies, Maria Curie-Sklodowska University in Lublin (Poland)

Author Information

Šárka Bubíková is an associate professor of American literature at the University of Pardubice, Czech Republic. The author of two books and a co-author of two edited volumes, she also writes fiction. Olga Roebuck is an assistant professor at the University of Pardubice, Czech Republic. She specializes in cultural identities in contemporary Scottish fiction and crime fiction.

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