Routledge Introduction to Canadian Crime Fiction

Pamela Bedore is Associate Professor of English at the University of Connecticut, where she teaches courses in American Literature and Popular Culture. She holds BA and BEd degrees from Queen’s University, an MA in English from Simon Fraser University, and a PhD in American Literature from the University of Rochester. She has published widely on detective fiction and speculative fiction, including the monograph Dime Novels and the Roots of American Detective Fiction (2013) and the lecture series Great Utopian and Dystopian Works of Literature (The Great Courses, 2017). Pam was the book review editor for Clues: A Journal of Detection for ten years and was recently a visiting scholar at an NEH Summer Institute on Climate Futurism.

• Chapter 1. Negotiations of National Identity in Canadian Crime FictionPart 1: Historical ConfrontationsChapter 2. John McFetridge and the Legacy of French/English TensionsChapter 3. Giles Blunt and the Canadian NorthChapter 4. Thomas King and the Liminal Indigenous DetectiveChapter 5. Ausma Zehanat Khan and Multiculturalism in CanadaChapter 6: Linwood Barclay and the American DreamPart 2: Canadian Genre PlayChapter 7. The Police Procedural: Registering Change with Peter Robinson’s DCI BanksChapter 8. The Amateur Detective: Gail Bowen’s Joanne Kilbourn as Canadian RevisionistChapter 9. The Gay Private Eye: Anthony Bidulka’s Russell QuantChapter 10. The Legal Thriller: Trauma and Resilience in Pamela Callow’s Kate LangeChapter 11. The Postmodern Detective: Literary Detection in Timothy Findley and Carol ShieldsPart 3: Futuristic ExplorationsChapter 12. Louise Penny’s Cozy Exploration of Trauma and Temporality in the AnthropoceneChapter 13. Storytelling, Guilt, and Games in Margaret Atwood’s Postapocalyptic Crime FictionChapter 14. Interpretive Mysteries and Impossible Crimes in Emily St. John Mandel’s Speculative Fiction

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