Crime fiction reading list
Some time ago I told you about my new project: Studying the history of crime fiction by reading broadly from the 18th century to contemporary works. This is the ever-expanding list of works I plan to read to learn how crime fiction developed. Once I have written a post on one of the works, it…
The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins (1860)
The Woman in White was one of the first works of a new genre that critics termed ‘sensation novel’. It was not meant as a compliment, but as an allusion to the excitement, the sensations, that reading these novels caused in their readers. Writer and critic Margaret Oliphant, describing the effect of an early scene…
New Project: Crime Fiction
I have been away for a while and now I’ve come back with a new project: I will write about one of the most interesting genres I get to study – Crime Fiction. As far as I have found out by now, the beginnings of Crime Fiction can be traced back to the 18th century…
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