French Crime Fiction
Distributed for University of Wales Press
192 pages
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5 1/2 x 8 1/2
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© 2009
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Table of Contents

Contents
Acknowledgements
Notes on Contributors
Introduction
Claire Gorrara
1 Origins and Beginnings: the Emergence of Detective Fiction in France
David Platten
2 Georges Simenon and Crime Fiction Between the Wars
Christopher Shorley
3 Post-War French Crime Fiction: the Advent of the Roman Noir
Claire Gorrara
4 May 1968, Radical Politics and the Néo-Polar
Susanna Lee
5 Gender and Genre: Women in French Crime Writing
Véronique Desnain
6 Postmodern Detectives and French Traditions
Simon Kemp
Conclusion
Claire Gorrara
Annotated Bibliography of Criticism on French Crime Fiction
Claire Gorrara
Index
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