{"product_id":"criminal-moves-modes-of-mobility-in-crime-fiction-9781789620580","title":"Criminal Moves: Modes of Mobility in Crime","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eCriminal Moves: Modes of Mobility in Crime Fiction\u003c\/i\u003e offers a major intervention into contemporary theoretical debates about crime fiction. It seeks to overturn the following preconceptions: that the genre does not warrant critical analysis, that genre norms and conventions matter more  than textual individuality, and that comparative perspectives are secondary to the study of the British-American canon. \u003ci\u003eCriminal Moves\u003c\/i\u003e  challenges the distinction between literary and popular fiction and proposes that crime fiction be seen as constantly violating its own boundaries. Centred on three axes of mobility, the essays ask how can we imagine a mobile reading practice that realizes the genre’s full textual complexity,  without being limited by the authoritative self-interpretations provided by crime narratives; how we can overcome restrictive notions of ‘genre’,  ‘formula’ or ‘popular’; and how we can establish transnational perspectives that challenge the centrality of the British-American tradition and  recognize that the global history of crime fiction is characterized, not by the existence of parallel national traditions, but rather by processes of  appropriation and transculturation. \u003ci\u003eCriminal Moves\u003c\/i\u003e presents a comprehensive reinterpretation of the history of the genre that also has profound ramifications for how we read individual crime fiction texts.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eReviews'The three editors of this rich collective volume are driven by the ambitious desire to radically revise crime fiction studies, sweeping away existing prejudices and providing a new conceptual framework to the study of the genre... in a few years, this work will be acknowledged as a turning point in the history of crime scholarship.'\u003cbr\u003eStefano Serafini, \u003ci\u003eLinguæ \u0026amp;\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'\u003ci\u003eCriminal Moves\u003c\/i\u003e is an excellent resource for scholars who are reconsidering how they research and teach foundational texts in the crime fiction genre. It can also help readers identify ways to analyse and appreciate transnational works outside of the traditional British-American canon without confining them to a fixed taxonomy.'\u003cbr\u003eJennifer Schnabel, \u003ci\u003eCrime Fiction Studies\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'\u003ci\u003eCriminal Moves\u003c\/i\u003e is an exciting venture. [...] It asks provocative questions about the transparency of narrative. [...] It is the reader, as consumer and companion of the detective and author, who is at the core of the experience. Also, the issue of the reader’s gaze and attention are important considerations.'Fred Isaac, \u003ci\u003eClues\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction: Criminal Moves: Towards a Theory of Crime Fiction Mobility\u003cbr\u003eJesper Gulddal, Stewart King and Alistair Rolls\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eMobility of Meaning\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e1. Behind the Locked Door: Leblanc, Leroux and the Anxieties of the Belle Époque\u003cbr\u003eJean Fornasiero and John West-Sooby\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e2. Moving Fergus Hume’s \u003ci\u003eThe Mystery of a Hansom Cab\u003c\/i\u003e and Breaking the Frame of Poe’s 'The Murders in the Rue Morgue’\u003cbr\u003eAlistair Rolls\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e3. Reading Affects in Raymond Chandler’s \u003ci\u003eThe Big Sleep\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHeta Pyrhönen\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e4. Contradicting the Golden Age: Reading Agatha Christie in the Twenty-First Century\u003cbr\u003eMerja Makinen\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eMobility of Genre\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e5. Criminal Minds: Reassessing the Origins of the Psycho-Thriller\u003cbr\u003eMaurizio Ascari\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e6. Foggy Muddle: Narrative, Contingency and Genre Mobility in Dashiell Hammett’s \u003ci\u003eThe Dain Curse\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJesper Gulddal\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e7. Burma’s Bagnoles: Urban Modernity and the Automotive Saccadism of Léo Malet’s \u003ci\u003eNouveaux mystères de Paris\u003c\/i\u003e (1954-1959)\u003cbr\u003eAndrea Goulet\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e8. Secrecy and Transparency in Hideo Yokoyama’s \u003ci\u003eSix Four\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAndrew Pepper\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTransnational Mobility\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e9. The Reader and World Crime Fiction: The (Private) Eye of the Beholder\u003cbr\u003eStewart King\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e10. From Vidocq to the Locked Room: International Connections in Nineteenth-Century Crime Fiction\u003cbr\u003eStephen Knight\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e11. Brain Attics and Mind Weapons: Investigative Spaces, Mobility and Transcultural Adaptations of Detective Fiction\u003cbr\u003eMichael B. Harris-Peyton ","brand":"Liverpool University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50470044860759,"sku":"9781789620580","price":109.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781789620580.jpg?v=1744897229","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/criminal-moves-modes-of-mobility-in-crime-fiction-9781789620580","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}