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Cover -- Contents -- General Editor's Preface -- General Introduction -- 1 Contexts: History, Politics, Culture -- Introduction -- Cities and urbanisation -- Crime and criminality -- Detectives and detection -- Evidence -- Gender and sexuality -- The law -- Police and policing -- Race, colour and creed -- 2 Texts: Themes, Issues, Concepts -- Introduction -- American crime fiction -- Children's crime fiction -- Early criminography -- Feminist crime fiction -- Golden-Age crime fiction 115 -- Hard-boiled detective fiction -- Historical crime fiction -- The police procedural -- 3 Criticism: Approaches, Theory, Practice -- Introduction -- Cultural materialism -- Feminism -- Postcolonialism -- Postmodernism -- Chronology -- Index
Cover -- Contents -- General Editor's Preface -- General Introduction -- 1 Contexts: History, Politics, Culture -- Introduction -- Cities and urbanisation -- Crime and criminality -- Detectives and detection -- Evidence -- Gender and sexuality -- The... more
Cover -- Contents -- General Editor's Preface -- General Introduction -- 1 Contexts: History, Politics, Culture -- Introduction -- Cities and urbanisation -- Crime and criminality -- Detectives and detection -- Evidence -- Gender and sexuality -- The law -- Police and policing -- Race, colour and creed -- 2 Texts: Themes, Issues, Concepts -- Introduction -- American crime fiction -- Children's crime fiction -- Early criminography -- Feminist crime fiction -- Golden-Age crime fiction 115 -- Hard-boiled detective fiction -- Historical crime fiction -- The police procedural -- 3 Criticism: Approaches, Theory, Practice -- Introduction -- Cultural materialism -- Feminism -- Postcolonialism -- Postmodernism -- Chronology -- Index.
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