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Author:   Pamela Bedore
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.690kg
ISBN:  

9780367645731

ISBN 10:   0367645734
Pages:   274
Publication Date:   27 February 2024
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Chapter 1. Negotiations of National Identity in Canadian Crime Fiction Part 1: Historical Confrontations Chapter 2. John McFetridge and the Legacy of French/English Tensions Chapter 3. Giles Blunt and the Canadian North Chapter 4. Thomas King and the Liminal Indigenous Detective Chapter 5. Ausma Zehanat Khan and Multiculturalism in Canada Chapter 6: Linwood Barclay and the American Dream Part 2: Canadian Genre Play Chapter 7. The Police Procedural: Registering Change with Peter Robinson’s DCI Banks Chapter 8. The Amateur Detective: Gail Bowen’s Joanne Kilbourn as Canadian Revisionist Chapter 9. The Gay Private Eye: Anthony Bidulka’s Russell Quant Chapter 10. The Legal Thriller: Trauma and Resilience in Pamela Callow’s Kate Lange Chapter 11. The Postmodern Detective: Literary Detection in Timothy Findley and Carol Shields Part 3: Futuristic Explorations Chapter 12. Louise Penny’s Cozy Exploration of Trauma and Temporality in the Anthropocene Chapter 13. Storytelling, Guilt, and Games in Margaret Atwood’s Postapocalyptic Crime Fiction Chapter 14. Interpretive Mysteries and Impossible Crimes in Emily St. John Mandel’s Speculative Fiction

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Pamela Bedore is Associate Professor of English at the University of Connecticut, where she teaches courses in American Literature and Popular Culture. She holds BA and BEd degrees from Queen’s University, an MA in English from Simon Fraser University, and a PhD in American Literature from the University of Rochester. She has published widely on detective fiction and speculative fiction, including the monograph Dime Novels and the Roots of American Detective Fiction (2013) and the lecture series Great Utopian and Dystopian Works of Literature (The Great Courses, 2017). Pam was the book review editor for Clues: A Journal of Detection for ten years and was recently a visiting scholar at an NEH Summer Institute on Climate Futurism.

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