Guilt rules all : Irish mystery, detective, and crime fiction / edited by Elizabeth Mannion and Brian Cliff.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Mannion, Elizabeth (Lecturer), editor.

Cliff, Brian, editor.

Series:

Irish studies (Syracuse, N.Y.)

Irish studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Detective and mystery stories, Irish (English)--History and criticism.

Detective and mystery stories, Irish (English).

English fiction--Irish authors--History and criticism.

English fiction.

English fiction--Irish authors.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

vii, 279 pages ; 23 cm.

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Syracuse, New York : Syracuse University Press, 2020.

Summary:

"Irish crime fiction, long present on international Best Seller lists, has been knocking on the door of the academy for a decade. With a varied mix of Irish Studies scholars providing comprehensive analyses on essential Irish detective series, Guilt Rules All: Mysteries, Detectives, and Crime in Irish Fiction establishes once and for all that this genre has arrived"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: pt. One Antecedents and Beginnings

1. Freeman Wills Crofts and the Inverted Mystery / Shane Mawe

2. Before the Tiger Roared: Bartholomew Gill's Ireland / Elizabeth Mannion

3. "Makes Us Human": Julie Parsons's Michael McLoughlin Trilogy / Bridget English

4. "A Land of Shame, a Land of Murder and a Land of Strange, Sacrificial Women": Representations of Wealth, Gender, and Race in Modern Irish-Language Crime Fiction / Caitlin Nic Iomhair

pt. Two Historical Crime Fiction

5. Hospitality and Surveillance: Imperial Crime in Conor Brady's Victorian Dublin / Nancy Marck Cantwell

6. How History Helps: Michael Russell's Irish Thrillers / Eunan O'Halpin

pt. Three Novelists and Readers

7. Ren Bryce: Hiding in Plain Sight / Declan Burke

8. The Ties That Bind: Arlene Hunt's QuicK Investigations / Joe Long

9. The Touch: Steve Cavanagh's Eddie Flynn Series / Gerard Brennan

pt. Four Adapting Hard-Boiled Models

10. Troubling the Genre: Declan Burke's Harry Rigby Novels / Maureen T. Reddy

11. "A Spanner in the Works": Metaphysical Detection in Colin Bateman's Dan Starkey Series / Brandi Byrd

12. "This Isn't Fucking Miss Marple, Mate": Intertextuality in Adrian McKinty's Sean Duffy Series / Anjili Babbar

13. The Radical and the Unrepresentable in Gene Kerrigan's Dublin Tetralogy / Richard Howard

pt. Five Domestic Noir

14. Serial Domestic Noir: Louise Phillips's Kate Pearson Series / Rosemary Erickson Johnsen

15. Searching for the Missing, Haunted by the Troubles: Claire McGowan's Dr. Paula Maguire / Vivian Valvano Lynch

16. More Than Domestic: Toward a Theory of Maternal Noir in Sinead Crowley's DS Claire Boyle Novels / Fiona Coleman Coffey

17. Between the Lines: Liz Nugent's Malignant Protagonists / Brian Cliff.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Guilt rules all

ISBN:

9780815636731

0815636733

9780815636830

0815636830

OCLC:

1126563864