Overview
- Examines the contributions of 100 British crime writers
- Explores the evolution of British crime genre from 1855–2015
- Offers an introduction to different eras in crime fiction
Part of the book series: Crime Files (CF)
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Table of contents (100 chapters)
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Front Matter
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The Victorians, Edwardians, and World War One, 1855–1918
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About this book
100 British Crime Writers explores a history of British crime writing between 1855 and 2015 through 100 writers, detailing their lives and significant writing and exploring their contributions to the genre. Divided into four sections: ‘The Victorians, Edwardians, and World War One, 1855-1918’; ‘The Golden Age and World War Two, 1919-1945’; ‘Post-War and Cold War, 1946-1989’; and ‘To the Millennium and Beyond, 1990-2015’, each section offers an introduction to the significant features of these eras in crime fiction and discusses trends in publication, readership, and critical response. With entries spanning the earliest authors of crime fiction to a selection of innovative contemporary novelists, this book considers the development and progression of the genre in the light of historical and social events.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editor
Esme Miskimmin is a Senior Lecturer in English Literature at the University of Liverpool, UK. She has research interests in Renaissance drama as well as crime writing, and sometimes combines the two.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: 100 British Crime Writers
Editors: Esme Miskimmin
Series Title: Crime Files
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-31902-9
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Nature Limited 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-230-20364-8Published: 13 November 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-58605-9Published: 13 November 2020
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-31902-9Published: 12 November 2020
Series ISSN: 2947-8340
Series E-ISSN: 2947-8359
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXXIX, 432
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations
Topics: British and Irish Literature, Fiction, Twentieth-Century Literature, Nineteenth-Century Literature