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The Routledge Handbook of Crime Fiction and Ecology

Edited By Nathan Ashman Copyright 2023
    458 Pages 3 B/W Illustrations
    by Routledge

    458 Pages 3 B/W Illustrations
    by Routledge
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    The Routledge Handbook of Crime Fiction and Ecology is the first comprehensive examination of crime fiction and ecocriticism. Across 33 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.

    Placing Crime Fiction and Ecology: An Introduction

    Nathan Ashman

    Part I: Space and Topography

    1. Affect in Peter May’s Lewis and Harris Novels

      2. Terry Gifford

    2. "The Goshawk Did It": Nature Writing and Detection in Ann Cleeves’

      3. The Crow Trap

      Ian Kenny and Irina Souch

    3. The Norfolk Saltmarsh: Elly Griffiths and Place in Contemporary Crime Fiction

      4. Nicola Bishop

    4. The Big Deep: The Ecological Turn in Nordic Noir

      5. Michael Hinds and Tomas Buitendijk

    5. Aesthetic Imaginaries of Nature and Nationhood in the Works of Arnaldur

      6. Indriðason

      Priscilla Jolly

    6. Unsettlement, Climate and Rural/Urban Place-Making in Australian Crime

      7. Fiction

      Rachel Fetherston

      Part II: Bodies and Violence

    7. Pest Control: "Wasp Season" in Agatha Christie’s "The Blue Geranium"

      8. Alicia Carroll

    8. Green Machinations: Unknown Poison, Ecology and Female Criminal Agency in

      9. L.T. Meade’s The Sorceress of the Strand

      Caitlin Anderson

    9. "Scorched Earth": Transgressive Bodies, Historic Criminality, and Colonial

      10. Recursions in Louise Erdrich’s The Round House

      Malinda Hackett

    10. "Animals Taking Revenge": Imagining Murder as an Ecological Encounter in

      11. 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

      12. Post-Apartheid South African Crime Fiction

      Colette Guldimann

    12. "Look at Mother Nature on the Run": ‘The Troubles’ in Adrian McKinty’s Sean

      13. Duffy Novels

      Bill Phillips

    13. Environmental Crime and the Dialectics of Slow and Divine Violence in

      14. 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

      15. Bible as Ecological Crime Fiction

      MaKenzie Hope Munson and Kevin Andrew Spicer

    15. John D. MacDonald and the Advent of Ecocrime Fiction

      16. Kristopher Mecholsky

    16. Choking to Death: True Crime and the Great Smog

      17. Anita Lam

    17. "Every Crime Has its Peculiar Odor": Detection, Deodorization and Intoxication

      18. Hsuan Hsu

    18. In Paolo Bacigalupi’s Environmental Science Fiction, Immoral and Criminal are

      19. not Synonymous

      Patrick D. Murphy

    19. From Crime Scene to Anthropocene in 2010s Argentinian Narrative

      20. David Conlon

    20. Ecologemes in Contemporary Australian Crime Fiction: The Case of Outback

      21. Noir

      Katrin Althans

      Part IV: Criminality and Justice

    21. Revising Crime in Fiction: An Environmental Invitation

      22. Marta Puxan-Oliva

    22. Criminal Violences: The Continuum of Settler Colonialism and Climate

      23. Crisis in Recent Indigenous Fiction

      Rebecca Tillett

    23. Environmental Racism and Post-Katrina Crime Fiction

      24. Ruth Hawthorn

    24. Seeking Environmental Justice: Muti in South African Crime Fiction

      25. Felicity Hand

    25. A Form of Wild Justice: Carl Hiaasen’s Deployment of Carnivalesque

      26. Environmental Ethics and Moral Technology

      Anna Kirsch

    26. Environmental Concerns in Carl Hiaasen’s Crime Fiction

      27. David Geherin

    27. New Energy, Old Crime: Forms of Individual and Collective Responsibility

      28. 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

      29. in Elliott Chaze’s Black Wings Has My Angel (1953)

      Nathan Ashman

    29. Oil and the Hardboiled: Petromobility, Settler Colonialism and the Legacy

      30. of the American Century in Thomas King’s Cold Skies

      Alec Follett

    30. "The Whole World…Was a Gigantic Prison": Climate Crisis and Carceral

      31. Capitalism in Rachel Kushner’s The Mars Room

      Megan Cole

    31. Reading Donna Leon as Mediterranean Noir

      32. Valerie McGuire

    32. The Circulation of Global Environmental Concerns: Local and International

      33. 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

    Biography

    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.

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