Serial Crime Fiction Dying for More

by Anderson, Jean; Miranda, Carolina; Pezzotti, Barbara

• ISBN13: 9781137483683
• ISBN10: 1137483687
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2015-08-31
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

Serial Crime Fiction is the first book to focus explicitly on the complexities of crime fiction seriality. As a whole the book argues that, far from being limited and repetitive, serial crime fiction exploits a seemingly infinite variety of permutations to explore major social issues. Covering definitions and development of the serial form, implications of the setting, perceptions and marketing of the series, this book also offers lively and innovative readings of nineteenth- to twenty-first-century crime fiction from Argentina, Australia, France, Germany, Italy, Sweden, the UK, and the USA. Authors studied include Conan Doyle, Dorothy Sayers, Sara Paretsky, David Peace, James Ellroy, Maurice Leblanc, Lisa Marklund, Andrea Camilleri, and Jorge Luis Borges, across print, film and television.

Author Biography

Jean Anderson is Associate Professor and Programme Director for French at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand. Her research interests are in late nineteenth century and contemporary women's writing, Francophone writing (Tahiti, Mauritius, Belgium), literary translation and crime fiction. She is the co-editor of The Foreign in International Crime Fiction: Transcultural Representations (2012).

Carolina Miranda lectures at Victoria University, Wellington, New Zealand. Her research interests include translation and twentieth century Latin American literature. She has published on Roberto Arlt's theatre and narrative work and also on Spanish, New Zealand and Argentine crime fiction. She has recently published The Foreign in International Crime Fiction (2012), co-edited with Jean Anderson and Barbara Pezzotti. She is a board member of The Australian Journal of Crime Fiction.

Barbara Pezzotti (PhD) is an Honorary Research Fellow of the Australasian Centre for Italian Studies (ACIS). She is the author of The Importance of Place in Contemporary Italian Crime Fiction: A Bloody Journey (2012) and Politics and Society in Italian Crime Fiction: An Historical Overview (2014). She is co-editor of The Foreign in International Crime Fiction: Transcultural Representations (2012).

Table of Contents

1.Introduction
PART I: THE SUM OF ITS PARTS: WHAT MAKES A SERIES?
2.Stephen Burroughs, Serial Offender; Jon Blandford
3.The Myth of the Gentleman Burglar: Models of Serialization and Temporality in Early Twentieth-Century Crime Fiction; Federico Pagello
4. 'More than the Sum of its Parts: Borges, Bioy Casares and the Phenomenon of the Séptimo Círculo Collection'; Carolina Miranda
5.Serializing Sullivan: Vian/Sullivan, the Série noire, and the effet de collection; Clara Sitbon, Marie-Laure Vuaille-Barcan and Alistair Rolls
6.Armed and Dangerous: Le Poulpe and the Formalization of French Noir; Pim Higginson
7.Acts of Violence: The World War II Veteran Private-Eye Movie as an Ideological Crime Series; Nick Heffernan
8.The Structure of the Whole: James Ellroy's LA Quartet Series; Steven Powell
PART II: AS TIME GOES BY: PROGRESSING THE SERIES
9.The Maturity of Lord Peter Wimsey and Authorial Innovation Within a Series; Brittain Bright
10.Series Fiction and the Challenge of Ideology: the Feminism of Sara Paretsky; Sabine Vanacker
11.From Conflicted Mother to Lone Avenger: Transformations of the Woman Journalist Detective in Liza Marklund's Crime Series; Kerstin Bergman
12.It's All One Book. It's All One World: George Pelecanos's Washington DC; Eduardo Obradó
13.Serializing Evil: David Peace and the Formulæ of Crime Fiction; Nicoletta Vallorani
14.The Flavour of the Street: The Factory Series by Derek Raymond; Anna Pasolini
15.Andrea Camilleri's Imaginary Vigàta, Between Formula and Innovation; Barbara Pezzotti
PART III: TRANPOSITION, IMITATION, INNOVATION
16.Sherlock Holmes in Hollywood: Film Series, Genre and Masculinities; Maysaa Jaber
17.Murder, Mayhem and Clever Branding: the Stunning Success of J.B. Fletcher; Rachel Franks and Donna Lee Brien
18.From flâneur to traceur?: Léo Malet and Cara Black Construct the PI's Paris; Jean Anderson
19.The City Lives in Me: Connectivity and Embeddedness in Australia's Peter Temple and Shane Maloney; Carolyn Beasley
20.'She's pretty hardboiled, huh?' Rewriting the Classic Detective in Veronica Mars; Taryn Norman
21. 'Exspecta Inexspectata': The Rise of the Supernatural in Hybrid; Detective Series for Young Readers; Lucy Andrew
Bibliography
Index