{"id":523,"date":"2011-11-15T20:48:19","date_gmt":"2011-11-15T20:48:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.crimeculture.com\/wordpress\/?page_id=523"},"modified":"2018-10-24T13:05:10","modified_gmt":"2018-10-24T13:05:10","slug":"lee-horsley","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.crimeculture.com\/?page_id=523","title":{"rendered":"Lee Horsley"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name=\"lee\"><\/a><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_11\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-11\" style=\"width: 150px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.crimeculture.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/09_Lee-Horsley_sml.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-11 \" style=\"margin-left: 3px; margin-right: 3px;\" title=\"Lee-Horsley\" src=\"http:\/\/www.crimeculture.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/09_Lee-Horsley_sml-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Lee Horsley\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.crimeculture.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/09_Lee-Horsley_sml-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.crimeculture.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/09_Lee-Horsley_sml-100x100.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-11\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lee Horsley<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><a id=\"lee\" name=\"lee\"><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lancs.ac.uk\/fass\/english\/profiles\/Lee-Horsley\/\">Lee Horsley<\/a>\u00a0has written two books on literature and politics &#8211;\u00a0<em>Political Fiction and the Historical Imagination<\/em>\u00a0(1990) and\u00a0<em>Fictions of Power in English Literature\u00a01900-1950<\/em> (1995). More recently, she has written or edited numerous\u00a0articles\u00a0and books on crime fiction.\u00a0<em>The Noir Thriller\u00a0<\/em>(2001, reissued in paperback in 2009) ranges from pulp thrillers of the 1920s to neo-noir films and cyberpunk.\u00a0<em>Twentieth-Century Crime Fiction<\/em>\u00a0(published by OUP in 2005, supported by an AHRB Research\u00a0Leave Award in the academic year 2003-04) is a study of the main sub-genres of crime fiction from the days of Sherlock Holmes to the present.\u00a0Lee is also co-editor, with Charles Rzepka, of\u00a0<em><a href=\"http:\/\/eu.wiley.com\/WileyCDA\/WileyTitle\/productCd-1405167653,descCd-description.html\">The Blackwell Companion to Crime Fiction<\/a><\/em>\u00a0(Wiley-Blackwell, 2010).\u00a0 She is now retired, but until 2011 she was a Reader in Literature and Culture at\u00a0Lancaster\u00a0University, where she taught from\u00a01974 on.\u00a0 She taught\u00a0two specialist crime courses and co-supervised numerous Creative Writing PhD students. She also\u00a0worked a lot on web development and eLearning, and is still Director of Web Development in the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.transculturalwriting.com\/\">Centre for Transcultural Writing and Research<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Read: \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/therapsheet.blogspot.com\/2009\/10\/raiding-ivory-tower-part-i.html\">Lee interviewed (by Megan Abbott) for The Rap Sheet.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lee Horsley\u00a0has written two books on literature and politics &#8211;\u00a0Political Fiction and the Historical Imagination\u00a0(1990) and\u00a0Fictions of Power in English<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.crimeculture.com\/?page_id=523\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Lee Horsley<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":779,"featured_media":0,"parent":7,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crimeculture.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/523"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crimeculture.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crimeculture.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crimeculture.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/779"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crimeculture.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=523"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.crimeculture.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/523\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6828,"href":"https:\/\/www.crimeculture.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/523\/revisions\/6828"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crimeculture.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crimeculture.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}