Includes bibliographical references and index Chris Raczkowski: Introduction Part I - Early American era Jodi Schorb, Daniel E. Williams: 1 From sermon to story: Early American crime literature Matthew Warner Osborn: 3 Crime journalism and the urban gothic novel Pamela Bedore: 7 The rise of the professional detective and the dime detective Chris Raczkowski: 11 Criminal modernism Part V - Postmodernist era Susan Elizabeth Sweeney: 16 Unusual suspects: American crimes, metaphysical detectives, postmodernist genres Jodi Schorb, Daniel E. Williams: 2 The theft of authorship: Crime narrative in post-revolutionary early American literature Timothy Helwig: 4 Crime and American romanticism Jeannine Marie DeLombard: 5 The 'dark' transactions of a 'black'? Slave narratives in the crime literature tradition Paul Grimstad: 6 Edgar Allan Poe and the emergence of the literary detective Jon Blanford: 8 Home and away: Reinvestigating domestic detective fiction Ellen Burton Harrington: 9 The rise of the American woman detective: Gender and the detective genre in Green, Doyle, and Rinehart John Dudley: 10 Crime, science, realism Malcah Effron: 12 American golden age crime fiction Justus Nieland: 13 Red harvest: Hard-boiled crime fiction and the fate of left populism Paula Rabinowitz: 14 Stateless mothers/motherless states: The femme fatale on the threshold of American citizenship Frederick Whiting: 15 One of us: The emergence of the psychopathological protagonist Michael Millner: 17 Identity politics and crime fiction James H. Cox: 18 Native American detective fiction and settler colonialism Justin Gifford: 19 African-American crime and detective fiction Dean DeFino: 20 Criminal family drama before and after 'The Sopranos' Jean Murley: 21 Making murderers: The evolution of true crime Andrew Pepper: 22 Spy narratives in post-9/11 American culture Will Scheibel: 23 Film noir and neo-noir David Bianculli: 24 Crime fiction television Christopher Breu: 25 Dead reckonings: Theoretical and critical approaches to detective fiction |
