The Routledge Handbook of Crime Fiction and Ecology

Compellingly written and drawing on examples from across the globe, 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.

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.

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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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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.

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Compellingly written and drawing on examples from across the globe, 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.

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Placing Crime Fiction and Ecology: An Introduction

Nathan Ashman

Part I: Space and Topography

1. Affect in Peter May s Lewis and Harris Novels ** Terry Gifford

2. "The Goshawk Did It": Nature Writing and Detection in Ann Cleeves ** The Crow Trap

   Ian Kenny and Irina Souch

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

4. The Big Deep: The Ecological Turn in Nordic Noir ** Michael Hinds and Tomas Buitendijk

5. Aesthetic Imaginaries of Nature and Nationhood in the Works of Arnaldur Indriðason ** Priscilla Jolly

6. Unsettlement, Climate and Rural/Urban Place-Making in Australian Crime Fiction Rachel Fetherston ** Part II: Bodies and Violence

7. Pest Control: "Wasp Season" in Agatha Christie s "The Blue Geranium" ** Alicia Carroll

8. Green Machinations: Unknown Poison, Ecology and Female Criminal Agency in L.T. Meade s The Sorceress of the Strand

   Caitlin Anderson

9. "Scorched Earth": Transgressive Bodies, Historic Criminality, and Colonial Recursions in Louise Erdrich s The Round House

   Malinda Hackett

10. "Animals Taking Revenge": Imagining Murder as an Ecological Encounter in 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 Post-Apartheid South African Crime Fiction ** Colette Guldimann

12. "Look at Mother Nature on the Run": `The Troubles in Adrian McKinty s Sean
    Duffy Novels ** Bill Phillips

13. Environmental Crime and the Dialectics of Slow and Divine Violence in * 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
    Bible as Ecological Crime Fiction ** MaKenzie Hope Munson and Kevin Andrew Spicer

15. John D. MacDonald and the Advent of Ecocrime Fiction ** Kristopher Mecholsky

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

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

18. In Paolo Bacigalupi s Environmental Science Fiction, Immoral and Criminal are not Synonymous ** Patrick D. Murphy

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

20. Ecologemes in Contemporary Australian Crime Fiction: The Case of Outback
    Noir Katrin Althans ** Part IV: Criminality and Justice

21. Revising Crime in Fiction: An Environmental Invitation ** Marta Puxan-Oliva

22. Criminal Violences: The Continuum of Settler Colonialism and Climate
    Crisis in Recent Indigenous Fiction ** Rebecca Tillett

23. Environmental Racism and Post-Katrina Crime Fiction ** Ruth Hawthorn

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

25. A Form of Wild Justice: Carl Hiaasen s Deployment of Carnivalesque Environmental Ethics and Moral Technology ** Anna Kirsch

26. Environmental Concerns in Carl Hiaasen s Crime Fiction ** David Geherin

27. New Energy, Old Crime: Forms of Individual and Collective Responsibility 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
    in Elliott Chaze s Black Wings Has My Angel (1953) ** Nathan Ashman

29. Oil and the Hardboiled: Petromobility, Settler Colonialism and the Legacy
    of the American Century in Thomas King s Cold Skies

    Alec Follett

30. "The Whole World Was a Gigantic Prison": Climate Crisis and Carceral
    Capitalism in Rachel Kushner s The Mars Room ** Megan Cole

31. Reading Donna Leon as Mediterranean Noir ** Valerie McGuire

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