The Routledge handbook of crime fiction and ecology / edited by Nathan Ashman.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Ashman, Nathan, editor.

Series:

Routledge literature handbooks

Routledge handbooks

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Detective and mystery stories--History and criticism.

Detective and mystery stories.

Ecology in literature.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xvi, 441 pages) : illustrations.

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Routledge, 2024.

Biography/History:

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.

Summary:

"The Routledge Handbook of Crime Fiction and Ecology is the first comprehensive examination of crime fiction and ecocriticism. Across thirty-four innovative chapters from leading international scholars, this Handbook considers an emergent field of contemporary crime narratives that are actively responding to a diverse assemblage of global environmental concerns, whilst also opening up 'classic' crime fictions and writers to new ecocritical perspectives. Rigorously engaged with cutting-edge critical trends, it places the familiar staples of crime fiction scholarship - from thematic to formal approaches - in conversation with a number of urgent ecological theories and ideas, covering subjects such as environmental security, environmental justice, slow violence, ecofeminism and animal studies. 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"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Placing crime fiction and ecology : an introduction / Nathan Ashman

Affect in Peter May's Lewis and Harris novels / Terry Gifford

"The Goshawk did it" : nature writing and detection in Ann Cleeves' The Crow Trap / Ian Kenny and Irina Souch

The Norfolk saltmarsh : Elly Griffiths and place in contemporary crime fiction / Nicola Bishop

The big deep : the ecological turn in Nordic noir / Michael Hinds and Tomas Buitendijk

Aesthetic imaginaries of nature and nationhood in the works of Arnaldur Indriðason / Priscilla Jolly

Unsettlement, climate and rural/urban place-making in Australian crime fiction / Rachel Fetherston

Pest control : "wasp season" in Agatha Christie's "The Blue Geranium" / Alicia Carroll

Green machinations : unknown poison, ecology and female criminal agency in L.T. Meade's The Sorceress of the Strand / Caitlin Anderson

"Scorched earth" : transgressive bodies, historic criminality, and colonial recursions in Louise Erdrich's The Round House / Malinda Hackett

"Animals taking revenge" : imagining murder as an ecological encounter in Olga Tokarczuk's Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead / Andrew Yallop

Protecting the rhinos and our young democracy : nature and the state in post-apartheid South African crime fiction / Colette Guldimann

"Look at Mother Nature on the run" : 'the troubles' in Adrian McKinty's Sean Duffy novels / Bill Phillips

Environmental crime and the dialectics of slow and divine violence in Poso Wells by Gabriela Alemán / Rafael Andúgar

"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

John D. MacDonald and the advent of ecocrime fiction / Kristopher Mecholsky

Choking to death : true crime and the great smog / Anita Lam

"Every crime has its peculiar odor" : detection, deodorization and intoxication / Hsuan Hsu

In Paolo Bacigalupi's environmental science fiction, immoral and criminal are not synonymous / Patrick D. Murphy

From crime scene to Anthropocene in 2010s Argentinian narrative / David Conlon

Ecologemes in contemporary Australian crime fiction : the case of outback noir / Katrin Althans

Revising crime in fiction : an environmental invitation / Marta Puxan-Oliva

Criminal violences : The continuum of settler colonialism and climate crisis in recent Indigenous fiction / Rebecca Tillett

Environmental racism and post-Katrina crime fiction / Ruth Hawthorn

Seeking environmental justice : muti in South African crime fiction / Felicity Hand

A form of wild justice : Carl Hiaasen's deployment of carnivalesque environmental ethics and moral technology / Anna Kirsch

Environmental concerns in Carl Hiaasen's crime fiction / David Geherin

New energy, old crime : forms of individual and collective responsibility in Nordic crimes series / Leonardo Nolé

"It tasted like gasoline" : the American roman noir and the oil encounter in Elliott Chaze's Black Wings Has My Angel (1953) / Nathan Ashman

Oil and the hardboiled : petromobility, settler colonialism and the legacy of the American century in Thomas King's Cold Skies / Alec Follett

"The whole world...was a gigantic prison" : climate crisis and carceral capitalism in Rachel Kushner's The Mars Room / Megan Cole

Reading Donna Leon as Mediterranean noir / Valerie McGuire

The circulation of global environmental concerns : local and international perspectives in the Verdenero collection and Donna Leon's crime fiction / Aina Vidal-Pérez

Magic seeds and the living dead : investigating transnational eco-crimes in Rajat Chaudhuri's The Butterfly Effect / Damini Ray.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on November 02, 2023).

Other Format:

Print version: Routledge handbook of crime fiction and ecology

ISBN:

9781003091912

1003091911

9781000984453

1000984451

1000984516

9781000984514

OCLC:

1389615341

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