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Criminal Moves: Modes of Mobility in Crime Fiction 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. Criminal Moves' 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. Criminal Moves presents a comprehensive reinterpretation of the history of the genre that also has profound ramifications for how we read individual crime fiction texts.

Detective and mystery stories --- History and criticism. --- world literature --- crime fiction --- genre --- mobility --- popular fiction

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French fiction --- Popular fiction --- Roman français --- History and criticism. --- Histoire et critique

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In the 1880s and 1890s, Walter Besant was one of Britain's most lionized living novelists. Today he is comparatively unknown. Bringing together literary critics and book historians, as well as social and cultural historians, this volume provides a major reassessment of Besant.

English fiction --- History and criticism. --- Besant, Walter, --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Authorship. --- 1800-1899 --- popular fiction --- social reform --- philanthropy --- Victorian literature --- copyright --- poverty

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Ivanov, Sacha --- Consumptieliteratuur --- Massaliteratuur --- Paralittérature --- Populaire literatuur --- Populaire roman --- Popular fiction --- Popular literature --- Prose (Littérature) --- Prose literature --- Proza (Literatuur) --- Pulp --- Roman populaire --- Triviaalliteratuur --- Volksroman --- #SBIB:309H241 --- #SBIB:309H515 --- #SBIB:316.7C213 --- Andere media: functies, genres, historiek --- Literatuurwetenschap, literatuursociologie --- Cultuursociologie: letterkunde, literatuur --- Ivanov, Sacha.

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Among the most important English novelists, Jane Austen is unusual because she is esteemed not only by academics but by the reading public. Her novels continue to sell well, and films adapted from her works enjoy strong box-office success. The trajectory of Austen criticism is intriguing, especially when one compares it to that of other nineteenth-century English writers. At least partly because she was a woman in the early nineteenth century, she was long neglected by critics, hardly considered a major figure in English literature until well into the twentieth century, a hundred years after her death. But consequently she escaped the reaction against Victorianism that did so much to hurt the reputation of Dickens, Tennyson, Arnold, and others. How she rose to prominence among academic critics - and has retained her position through the constant shifting of academic and critical trends - is a story worth telling, as it suggests not only something about Austen's artistry but also about how changes in critical perspective can radically alter a writer's reputation. Laurence W. Mazzeno is President Emeritus of Alvernia University, Reading, Pennsylvania.

Litteraturhistorie. --- Austen, Jane, --- Criticism and interpretation --- History. --- Ao-ssu-ting, --- Ao-ssu-ting, Chien, --- Aosiding, --- Aosiding, Jian, --- Āsṭin̲, Jēn̲, --- Austenová, Jane, --- Osten, Dzheĭn, --- Ostin, Dzhein, --- Lady, --- Author of Sense and Sensibility, --- Остен, Джейн, --- Остен, Джейм, --- אוסטן, ג׳יין --- אוסטן, ג׳יין, --- أوستن، جين، --- English literature --- LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General. --- 1800s. --- English. --- Victorian age. --- analysis. --- female authors. --- fiction. --- literary criticism. --- literature history. --- nineteenth century literature. --- nineteenth century. --- popular fiction. --- pride and prejudice. --- romance. --- story. --- 19th century.