Crime Fiction in the City: Capital Crimes (International Crime Fictions) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0708325866 ISBN 13: 9780708325865

Publisher: University of Wales Press, 2013

Synopsis

Crime Fiction in the City: Capital Crimes expands upon previous studies of urban space and crime by reflecting on the treatment of the capital city—a repository of authority, national identity, and culture—within crime fiction. The essays examine a broad array of crime writing set in capital cities, from the nineteenth-century gothic city mysteries of Paris, London, and Rome, to contemporary fiction located in newly devolved centers of power like Cardiff, Dublin, Edinburgh, and Stockholm. The collection brings together academics and creative writers, including an opening reflective essay by Ian Rankin.

About this title

About the Author:

Lucy Andrew and Catherine Phelps are PhD students and postgraduate tutors at Cardiff University.

Review:

“This exciting new collection reconsiders and rereads the significance of location in crime fiction. Cities and crime have always been inextricably connected: city living engenders crime in its juxtaposition of wealth and poverty, and in the anonymity and alienation of the individual in the mass. Crime Fiction in the City takes this as its beginning, and goes on to consider the national and identity politics inherent in locating crime fiction in cities. Importantly, the focus is not just on the capital cities of London, Paris, and Rome, which have long been associated with the genre, but on cities such as Cardiff and Edinburgh, Dublin and Stockholm, which are more immediately concerned with emerging national identities. Opening with crime writer Ian Rankin’s exposition on Edinburgh and closing with Professor Stephen Knight’s exploration of the nineteenth-century crime-inflected The Mysteries of the Cities, the collection has both academic rigor and popular appeal.” (Heather Worthington, Cardiff University)

About this edition

• Publisher: University of Wales Press
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 0708325866
• ISBN 13: 9780708325865
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 149
• Editor: Andrew Lucy, Phelps Catherine