Twentieth-Century Crime Fiction

by Lee Horsley

Book Overview

Twentieth-Century Crime Fiction aims to enhance understanding of one of the most popular forms of genre fiction by examining a wide variety of the detective and crime fiction produced in Britain and America during the twentieth century. It will be of interest to anyone who enjoys reading crime fiction but is specifically designed with the needs of students in mind. It introduces different theoretical approaches to crime fiction (e.g., formalist, historicist,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199253269
• ISBN13: 9780199253265
• Release Date: November 2005
• Publisher: OUP Oxford
• Length: 328 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.6" x 8.5"