TY  - BOOK
AU  - David Clark
PY  - 2022
CY  - Oxford, United Kingdom
PB  - Peter Lang Verlag
SN  - 1662-9094
SN  - 9781800798274
TI  - Dark Green
T2  - Irish Crime Fiction 1665-2000
DO  - 10.3726/b19642
UR  - https://www.peterlang.com/document/1191601
N2  - The book deals diachronically with Irish crime fiction, from the picaresque of the 17th century up to the late 1990s when the «Emerald Noir» boom began. Irish writers, often without due recognition, have been instrumental in the development of the genre on an international level, and figures such as Le Fanu, Meade, Childers, Wills Crofts have been responsible for many of the innovations in crime fiction which have later become standard. This book examines Irish crime writing in its widest sense, from the detective mystery to the spy thriller, and seeks to vindicate the relevance of the Irish contribution to the field of crime fiction as well as stressing the importance of crime writing within the field of Irish Studies. This work traces Irish crime fiction from the early appropriation of the picaresque, which would gain resonance throughout Europe, through the gothic, the early detective tale, to the Irish contribution to the Golden Age mystery, to Irish hard-boiled pulp and inner-city police procedurals in which crimes committed by Irish criminals are investigated by Irish agents of detection.
KW  - Crime fiction, Irish Studies, detective fiction, Irish crime fiction, Detective mystery, Dark Green, David Clark
LA  - English
ER  -