Teaching Crime Fiction

Abstract

More than perhaps any other genre, crime fiction invites debate over the role of popular fiction in English studies. This book offers lively original essays on teaching crime fiction written by experienced British and international scholar teachers, providing vital insight into this diverse genre through a series of compelling subjects. Taking its starting-point in pedagogical reflections and classroom experiences, the book explores methods for teaching students to develop their own critical perspectives as crime fiction critics, the impact of feminism, postcolonialism, and ecocriticism on crime fiction, crime fiction and film, the crime short story, postgraduate perspectives, and more. Introduction: crime fiction / Charlotte Beyer -- Designing crime fiction modules: the literature classroom and interdisciplinary approaches / Rebecca Martin -- Plots and devices / Malcah Effron -- Teaching crime fiction and gender / Maureen T. Reddy -- Teaching American detective fiction in the contemporary classroom / Nicole Kenley -- Teaching postcolonial crime fiction / Sam Naidu -- Cut a long story short: teaching the crime short story / Charlotte Beyer -- Studies in green: teaching ecological crime fiction / Samantha Walton -- Teaching crime fiction and film / Sian Harris -- Crime writing: language and stylistics / Christiana Gregoriou -- The crime novelist as educator: towards a fuller understanding of crime fiction / Paul Johnston -- Teaching crime fiction criticism / Rosemary Erickson Johnsen -- Teaching contemporary US crime fiction through the 'War on Drugs': a postgraduate case study / Andrew Pepper.