Description
This Companion examines the range of American crime fiction from execution sermons of the Colonial era to television programmes like The Sopranos.
About the Author
Catherine Ross Nickerson is Associate Professor of American Studies at Emory University, Atlanta. She is the author of The Web of Iniquity: Early Women Writers of Detective Fiction (1998) and she has edited two volumes of reprinted novels from early detective fiction: Anna Katharine Green, Lost Man's Lane and that Affair Next Door and Metta Victor, The Dead Letter and the Figure Eight (both 2003). She has also received the 2011 George N. Dove Award for Contributions to the Study of Crime Fiction.
Reviews
"Fourteen essays by academics include some valuable history and analysis..." -John L. Breen
..."the Companion succeeds in presenting the richness and diversity of works that form the genre, and the many ways in which crime fiction remains enormously relevant to the popular cultures of today." -Tarik Abdel-Monem,University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Book Information
ISBN 9780521136068
Author Catherine Ross Nickerson
Format Paperback
Page Count 208
Imprint Cambridge University Press
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Weight(grams) 340g
Dimensions(mm) 227mm * 155mm * 10mm