The Millennial Detective: Essays on Trends in Crime Fiction, Film and Television, 1990-2010Malcah Effron International in scope and varied in its theoretical approaches, this collection of ten new critical essays examines the prevailing trends in recent crime fiction. Of particular interest are shifting, and increasingly globalized, conceptions of crime, as well as the genre's response to technological, legal, and social changes at the end of the 20th century. Employing critical tools new to crime-fiction studies, the essays also gesture toward a future for genre scholarship. |
Contents
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| 5 | |
Introduction by Malcah Effron | 9 |
Crime Fiction and the Politics of Place | 21 |
A Normal Pathology? Patricia Cornwells ThirdPerson Novels | 36 |
Inheriting the Mantle | 50 |
A Visitor for the Dead | 66 |
Transforming Genres | 82 |
A Natural Instinct for Forensics | 112 |
PostModern or PostMortem? Murder as a SelfConsuming Artifact in Red Dragon | 128 |
Revisiting Paranoia | 142 |
A Detective Series with Love Interruptions? The Heteronormative Detective Couple in Contemporary Crime Fiction | 157 |
Detective Fiction and Serial Protagonists | 173 |
About the Contributors | 185 |
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The Poetics of Deviance in The Curious Incident of the Dog in the NightTime | 97 |
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