Crime Fiction: Articles
Explore the genre of Crime Fiction -- its history, subgenres, and why it's such a broadly appealing form of literature.
Origins
- The First Detective StoryA brief history of the detective story.
- True Crime: The Origins of Modern Sensationalism“True Crime: The Origins of Modern Sensationalism”, published in The American Historical Review, by Joy Wiltenburg.
- Crime Fiction According to HoyleAn article reporting from 1931 on the booming industry of crime fiction writing.
- Detective Fiction and the Aesthetic of Crime"Discusses the role that the aesthetics of crime during the late 18th and early 19th centuries had on the development of detective fiction in the late 19th century."
- Criminal convictionsDiscusses the "the expansion of the genre and of its place in literary culture, as evidenced by its becoming a subject of study in higher education."
A Deeper Dig
- Dreams, Transformations, and Literature: The Implications of Detective FictionPublished in Victorian Studies, 1975.
- The Detective As Reader: Narrativity And Reading Concepts In Detective FictionPublished in Modern Fiction Studies, 1987.
- Images of crime and justice: Murder and the “true crime” genrePublished in Journal of Criminal Justice, 1995.