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American Mystery and Detective Novels Larry Landrum

American Mystery and Detective Novels By Larry Landrum

American Mystery and Detective Novels by Larry Landrum


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Summary

Comparisons with related genres, such as gothic, suspense, gangster, and postmodern novels, illustrate similarities and differences important to the understanding of the unique components of mystery and detective fiction.

The guide is divided into five major sections: a brief history, related genres, criticism, authors, and reference.

American Mystery and Detective Novels Summary

American Mystery and Detective Novels: A Reference Guide by Larry Landrum

Mystery and detective novels are popular fictional genres within Western literature. As such, they provide a wealth of information about popular art and culture. When the genre develops within various cultures, it adopts, and proceeds to dominate, native expressions and imagery. American mystery and detective novels appeared in the late nineteenth century. This reference provides a selective guide to the important criticism of American mystery and detective novels and presents general features of the genre and its historical development over the past two centuries. Critical approaches covered in the volume include story as game, images, myth criticism, formalism and structuralism, psychonalysis, Marxism and more. Comparisons with related genres, such as gothic, suspense, gangster, and postmodern novels, illustrate similarities and differences important to the understanding of the unique components of mystery and detective fiction.

The guide is divided into five major sections: a brief history, related genres, criticism, authors, and reference. This organization accounts for the literary history and types of novels stemming from the mystery and detective genre. A chronology provides a helpful overview of the development and transformation of the genre.

About Larry Landrum

LARRY LANDRUM is a professor of English at Michigan State University where he teaches popular culture, multicultural literature, and film theory.

Table of Contents

Introduction Historical Outline Related Formulas Criticism and Theory Authors Reference Chronology Bibliography Author/Title Index

Additional information

NPB9780313213878
9780313213878
0313213879
American Mystery and Detective Novels: A Reference Guide by Larry Landrum
New
Hardback
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
1999-05-30
296
N/A
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