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050 0 0 _aPR 830 .C74
_bS28 2005
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100 1 _aScaggs, John,
_d1970-
245 1 0 _aCrime fiction /
_cJohn Scaggs.
260 _aLondon ;
_aNew York :
_bRoutledge,
_c2005.
300 _aviii, 170 p. ;
_c21 cm.
490 1 _aThe new critical idiom
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [151]-165) and index.
505 0 _aA Chronology Of Crime -- Early Crime Narratives -- Crime Stories As Cautionary Tales -- Crime Fiction And Policing -- The Golden Age To The Present -- Mystery And Detective Fiction -- Retracing The Steps: The Origins Of Mystery Fiction -- Reasoning Machines: The Figure Of The Amateur Detective -- Escalating Crimes: From Purloined Letters To Murder -- Maintaining Social Order And The Status Quo -- Settings And Sub-Genres -- The Hard-Boiled Mode -- Murder For A Reason: Origins And Development -- A Shop-Soiled Galahad: The Private Eye Hero -- Last Chances And New Beginnings: The Myth Of The Frontier -- Mean Streets And Rats' Alleys: Modernity And The City -- Fallen Angels: Appropriation Of The Hard-Boiled Mode -- The Police Procedural -- Thin Blue Lines: Fiction As Ideological State Apparatus -- Private Eye To Public Eye: The Development Of The Procedural -- Textual Investigations: Characteristics Of The Procedural -- Social Placebo: The Magic Bullet Of Procedural Reassurance -- Arrested Developments: Appropriations Of The Procedural -- The Crime Thriller -- Outlining The Crime Thriller -- The Noir Thriller -- The Anti-Conspiracy Thriller -- Historical Crime Fiction -- Writing History And Interpreting The Past -- Crime, History, And Realism -- The Case Of The Name Of The Rose -- Postmodernism And The Anti-Detective Novel.
650 0 _aDetective and mystery stories, English
_xHistory and criticism.
650 0 _aDetective and mystery stories, American
_xHistory and criticism.
650 0 _aCrime in literature.
830 0 _aNew critical idiom.
856 4 1 _3Table of contents
_uhttp://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0420/2004016596.html
856 4 2 _3Publisher description
_uhttp://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0651/2004016596-d.html
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