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The Routledge Handbook of Crime Fiction and Ecology is the first comprehensive examination of crime fiction and ecocriticism. Across 33 innovative chapters from leading international scholars, this Handbook considers an emergent field of contemporary crime narratives that are actively responding to a diverse assemblage of global environmental concerns, whilst also opening up ‘classic’ crime fictions and writers to new ecocritical perspectives. Rigorously engaged with cutting-edge critical trends, it places the familiar staples of crime fiction scholarship – from thematic to formal approaches – in conversation with a number of urgent ecological theories and ideas, covering subjects such as environmental security, environmental justice, slow violence, ecofeminism and animal studies. The Routledge Handbook of Crime Fiction and Ecology is an essential introduction to this new and dynamic research field for both students and scholars alike.

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Author:   Nathan Ashman
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.988kg
ISBN:  

9780367550851

ISBN 10:   0367550857
Pages:   442
Publication Date:   20 October 2023
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

"Placing Crime Fiction and Ecology: An Introduction Nathan Ashman Part I: Space and Topography Affect in Peter May’s Lewis and Harris Novels Terry Gifford ""The Goshawk Did It"": Nature Writing and Detection in Ann Cleeves’ The Crow Trap Ian Kenny and Irina Souch The Norfolk Saltmarsh: Elly Griffiths and Place in Contemporary Crime Fiction Nicola Bishop The Big Deep: The Ecological Turn in Nordic Noir Michael Hinds and Tomas Buitendijk Aesthetic Imaginaries of Nature and Nationhood in the Works of Arnaldur Indriðason Priscilla Jolly Unsettlement, Climate and Rural/Urban Place-Making in Australian Crime Fiction Rachel Fetherston Part II: Bodies and Violence Pest Control: ""Wasp Season"" in Agatha Christie’s ""The Blue Geranium"" Alicia Carroll Green Machinations: Unknown Poison, Ecology and Female Criminal Agency in L.T. Meade’s The Sorceress of the Strand Caitlin Anderson ""Scorched Earth"": Transgressive Bodies, Historic Criminality, and Colonial Recursions in Louise Erdrich’s The Round House Malinda Hackett ""Animals Taking Revenge"": Imagining Murder as an Ecological Encounter in Olga Tokarczuk’s Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead Andrew Yallop Protecting the Rhinos and Our Young Democracy: Nature and the State in Post-Apartheid South African Crime Fiction Colette Guldimann ""Look at Mother Nature on the Run"": ‘The Troubles’ in Adrian McKinty’s Sean Duffy Novels Bill Phillips Environmental Crime and the Dialectics of Slow and Divine Violence in Poso Wells by Gabriela Alemán Rafael Andúgar Part III: Epistemologies ""Holmes, that’s some Santa Claus shit"": Reading Lydia Millet’s A Children’s Bible as Ecological Crime Fiction MaKenzie Hope Munson and Kevin Andrew Spicer John D. MacDonald and the Advent of Ecocrime Fiction Kristopher Mecholsky Choking to Death: True Crime and the Great Smog Anita Lam ""Every Crime Has its Peculiar Odor"": Detection, Deodorization and Intoxication Hsuan Hsu In Paolo Bacigalupi’s Environmental Science Fiction, Immoral and Criminal are not Synonymous Patrick D. Murphy From Crime Scene to Anthropocene in 2010s Argentinian Narrative David Conlon Ecologemes in Contemporary Australian Crime Fiction: The Case of Outback Noir Katrin Althans Part IV: Criminality and Justice Revising Crime in Fiction: An Environmental Invitation Marta Puxan-Oliva Criminal Violences: The Continuum of Settler Colonialism and Climate Crisis in Recent Indigenous Fiction Rebecca Tillett Environmental Racism and Post-Katrina Crime Fiction Ruth Hawthorn Seeking Environmental Justice: Muti in South African Crime Fiction Felicity Hand A Form of Wild Justice: Carl Hiaasen’s Deployment of Carnivalesque Environmental Ethics and Moral Technology Anna Kirsch Environmental Concerns in Carl Hiaasen’s Crime Fiction David Geherin New Energy, Old Crime: Forms of Individual and Collective Responsibility in Nordic Crimes Series Leonardo Nolé Part V: Energy, Globality and Circulation ""It Tasted Like Gasoline"": The American Roman Noir and the Oil Encounter in Elliott Chaze’s Black Wings Has My Angel (1953) Nathan Ashman Oil and the Hardboiled: Petromobility, Settler Colonialism and the Legacy of the American Century in Thomas King’s Cold Skies Alec Follett ""The Whole World…Was a Gigantic Prison"": Climate Crisis and Carceral Capitalism in Rachel Kushner’s The Mars Room Megan Cole Reading Donna Leon as Mediterranean Noir Valerie McGuire The Circulation of Global Environmental Concerns: Local and International Perspectives in the Verdenero Collection and Donna Leon’s Crime Fiction Aina Vidal-Pérez Magic Seeds and The Living Dead: Investigating Transnational Eco-Crimes in Rajat Chaudhuri’s The Butterfly Effect Damini Ray"

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Nathan Ashman is Lecturer in Crime Writing at the University of East Anglia and the author of James Ellroy and Voyeur Fiction (2018). His research spans the fields of crime fiction, contemporary American fiction, and ecocriticism, with a particular specialism in the works of James Ellroy. He has published articles on numerous writers including Ross Macdonald, E.C. Bentley, Don DeLillo,Megan Abbott and Walter Mosley. His second book, James Sallis: A Companion to the Mystery Fiction, is forthcoming.

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