This\u00a0section of Crimeculture includes introductions\u00a0to many different aspects of crime and detective fiction, from the Victorian detective novel\u00a0to the contemporary graphic novel.\u00a0 The crimeculture site also includes numerous articles on crime and detective fiction.<\/p>\n
Our main introductory sections are:<\/p>\n
Christopher Pittard’s analysis of the emergence of the detective story as a distinct genre in the\u00a0nineteenth century, taking in the work of a large range of writers, including Vidocq, William\u00a0Russell, Poe, Dickens, Mary Elizabeth Braddon, Wilkie Collins, Fergus Hume, Conan Doyle,\u00a0Arthur Morrison, Grant Allen and L T Meade.\u00a0Go to Victorian Detective Fiction…<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n A brief overview of the origins and\u00a0development of classic detective fiction, at\u00a0present providing brief discussions of the\u00a0stories of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, G.K.\u00a0Chesterton, Arthur Morrison and R. Austin\u00a0Freeman, and of the post-World War I\u00a0“Golden Age” (e.g., Christie and Sayers).\u00a0Go to\u00a0Classic Detective Fiction…<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n An introduction to the growth of hard-boiled crime fiction in the 1920s and 1930s, with a brief discussion\u00a0of the historical background and sections on Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler, Horace McCoy,\u00a0James M. Cain, W.R. Burnett and Paul Cain. Go to Hard-boiled Crime Fiction…<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n A\u00a0brief discussion of the post-World War Two American paperback boom,\u00a0and of the influence of McCarthyism in ‘the paranoid fifties’; amongst\u00a0the writers included in this section are Mickey Spillane, David Goodis,\u00a0Gil Brewer, Leigh Brackett and Jim Thompson.\u00a0Go to\u00a0The\u00a0Era of Paperback Originals…<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n An\u00a0introduction to British crime fiction outside the tradition\u00a0of the\u00a0classic detective story, starting with Greene and Ambler in\u00a0the 1930s,\u00a0and going on to glance at post-World War Two ‘mushroom\u00a0publishing’,\u00a0at Ted Lewis and\u00a0Get Carter, and at the ‘New Wave’ British\u00a0crime writing that has flourished since the 1980s.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>Go to Brit Grit…<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n Sue Neale’s discussion of French crime fiction, from Vidocq to Daniel Pennac and Fred Vargas.\u00a0 This is our first foray into European writing, and we would be very pleased to have offers of further articles or sections on non-Anglo-American crime fiction. Go to French Crime Fiction..<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n An\u00a0introduction to American crime writing of the past three decades, David Schmid’s concise overview of the diverse and expanding field of serial killer fiction, tracing its history and considering the links between fiction and non-fiction. This essay is supplemented by Serial Killer Non-Fiction<\/em>, in the True Crime section of the site. Go to\u00a0Serial Killer Fiction<\/a>…<\/span><\/p>\n Arthur Fried’s detailed discussion of ‘Crime Fiction in Comic Strips, Comic Books and Graphic Novels’. Go to\u00a0Graphic Crime Fiction<\/a>…<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" This\u00a0section of Crimeculture includes introductions\u00a0to many different aspects of crime and detective fiction, from the Victorian detective novel\u00a0to the contemporary<\/p>\nClassic Detective Fiction<\/span><\/h3>\n
Classic American Hard-boiled Crime Fiction<\/span><\/h3>\n
The Era of Paperback Originals<\/span><\/h3>\n
Brit Grit<\/span><\/h3>\n
French Crime Fiction<\/span><\/h3>\n
American Crime Writing 1970-2000<\/span><\/h3>\n
\nsummarizing key themes in contemporary American noir; amongst writers\u00a0included are James Ellroy, Edward Bunker, Geroge V. Higgins, Loren\u00a0Estleman, James Lee Burke, James Crumley, Walter Mosley, Elmore Leonard\u00a0and Carl Hiaasen. Go to\u00a0American\u00a0Crime Writing 1970-2000<\/a>…<\/span><\/p>\nSerial Killer Fiction<\/span><\/h3>\n
Graphic Crime Fiction<\/span><\/h3>\n