The Routledge Handbook of Crime Fiction and Ecology

Herausgeber: Ashman, Nathan

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Produktbeschreibung

Compellingly written and drawing on examples from across the globe, The Routledge Handbook of Crime Fiction and Ecology is an essential introduction to this new and dynamic research field for both students and scholars alike.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 442
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. Oktober 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 254mm x 178mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 1007g
• ISBN-13: 9780367550851
• ISBN-10: 0367550857
• Artikelnr.: 69114085

Autorenporträt

Nathan Ashman is Lecturer in Crime Writing at the University of East Anglia and the author of James Ellroy and Voyeur Fiction (2018). His research spans the fields of crime fiction, contemporary American fiction, and ecocriticism, with a particular specialism in the works of James Ellroy. He has published articles on numerous writers including Ross Macdonald, E.C. Bentley, Don DeLillo,Megan Abbott and Walter Mosley. His second book, James Sallis: A Companion to the Mystery Fiction, is forthcoming.

Inhaltsangabe

Placing Crime Fiction and Ecology: An Introduction
Nathan Ashman
Part I: Space and Topography
1. Affect in Peter May's Lewis and Harris Novels
Terry Gifford
2. "The Goshawk Did It": Nature Writing and Detection in Ann Cleeves'
The Crow Trap
Ian Kenny and Irina Souch
3. The Norfolk Saltmarsh: Elly Griffiths and Place in Contemporary Crime
Fiction
Nicola Bishop
4. The Big Deep: The Ecological Turn in Nordic Noir
Michael Hinds and Tomas Buitendijk
5. Aesthetic Imaginaries of Nature and Nationhood in the Works of
Arnaldur
Indriðason
Priscilla Jolly
6. Unsettlement, Climate and Rural/Urban Place-Making in Australian
Crime
Fiction
Rachel Fetherston
Part II: Bodies and Violence
7. Pest Control: "Wasp Season" in Agatha Christie's "The Blue Geranium"
Alicia Carroll
8. Green Machinations: Unknown Poison, Ecology and Female Criminal
Agency in
L.T. Meade's The Sorceress of the Strand
Caitlin Anderson
9. "Scorched Earth": Transgressive Bodies, Historic Criminality, and
Colonial
Recursions in Louise Erdrich's The Round House
Malinda Hackett
10. "Animals Taking Revenge": Imagining Murder as an Ecological Encounter
in
Olga Tokarczuk's Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead
Andrew Yallop
11. Protecting the Rhinos and Our Young Democracy: Nature and the State
in
Post-Apartheid South African Crime Fiction
Colette Guldimann
12. "Look at Mother Nature on the Run": 'The Troubles' in Adrian
McKinty's Sean
Duffy Novels
Bill Phillips
13. Environmental Crime and the Dialectics of Slow and Divine Violence in
Poso Wells by Gabriela Alemán
Rafael Andúgar
Part III: Epistemologies
14. "Holmes, that's some Santa Claus shit": Reading Lydia Millet's A
Children's
Bible as Ecological Crime Fiction
MaKenzie Hope Munson and Kevin Andrew Spicer
15. John D. MacDonald and the Advent of Ecocrime Fiction
Kristopher Mecholsky
16. Choking to Death: True Crime and the Great Smog
Anita Lam
17. "Every Crime Has its Peculiar Odor": Detection, Deodorization and
Intoxication
Hsuan Hsu
18. In Paolo Bacigalupi's Environmental Science Fiction, Immoral and
Criminal are
not Synonymous
Patrick D. Murphy
19. From Crime Scene to Anthropocene in 2010s Argentinian Narrative
David Conlon
20. Ecologemes in Contemporary Australian Crime Fiction: The Case of
Outback
Noir
Katrin Althans
Part IV: Criminality and Justice
21. Revising Crime in Fiction: An Environmental Invitation
Marta Puxan-Oliva
22. Criminal Violences: The Continuum of Settler Colonialism and Climate
Crisis in Recent Indigenous Fiction
Rebecca Tillett
23. Environmental Racism and Post-Katrina Crime Fiction
Ruth Hawthorn
24. Seeking Environmental Justice: Muti in South African Crime Fiction
Felicity Hand
25. A Form of Wild Justice: Carl Hiaasen's Deployment of Carnivalesque
Environmental Ethics and Moral Technology
Anna Kirsch
26. Environmental Concerns in Carl Hiaasen's Crime Fiction
David Geherin
27. New Energy, Old Crime: Forms of Individual and Collective
Responsibility
in Nordic Crimes Series
Leonardo Nolé
Part V: Energy, Globality and Circulation
28. "It Tasted Like Gasoline": The American Roman Noir and the Oil
Encounter
in Elliott Chaze's Black Wings Has My Angel (1953)
Nathan Ashman
29. Oil and the Hardboiled: Petromobility, Settler Colonialism and the
Legacy
of the American Century in Thomas King's Cold Skies
Alec Follett
30. "The Whole World...Was a Gigantic Prison": Climate Crisis and
Carceral
Capitalism in Rachel Kushner's The Mars Room
Megan Cole
31. Reading Donna Leon as Mediterranean Noir
Valerie McGuire
32. The Circulation of Global Environmental Concerns: Local and
International
Perspectives in the Verdenero Collection and Donna Leon's Crime
Fiction
Aina Vidal-Pérez
33. Magic Seeds and The Living Dead: Investigating Transnational
Eco-Crimes
in Rajat Chaudhuri's The Butterfly Effect
Damini Ray