The Routledge Handbook of Crime Fiction and Ecology (Routledge Literature Handbooks)

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Placing Crime Fiction and Ecology: An Introduction
Part I Space and Topography
	1 Affect in Peter May’s Lewis and Harris Novels
	2 The Goshawk Did It: Nature Writing and Detection in Ann Cleeves’ The Crow Trap
	3 The Norfolk Saltmarsh: Elly Griffiths and Place in Contemporary Crime Fiction
	4 The Big Deep: The Ecological Turn in Nordic Noir
	5 Aesthetic Imaginaries of Nature and Nationhood in the Works of Arnaldur Indriðason
	6 Unsettlement, Climate and Rural/Urban Place-Making in Australian Crime Fiction
Part II Bodies and Violence
	7 Pest Control: “Wasp Season” in Agatha Christie’s “The Blue Geranium”
	8 Green Machinations: Unknown Poison, Ecology and Female Criminal Agency in L.T. Meade’s The Sorceress of the Strand
	9 “Scorched Earth”: Transgressive Bodies, Historic Criminality, and Colonial Recursions in Louise Erdrich’s The Round House
	10 “Animals Taking Revenge”: Imagining Murder as an Ecological Encounter in Olga Tokarczuk’s Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead
	11 Protecting the Rhinos and Our Young Democracy: Nature and the State in Post-Apartheid South African Crime Fiction
	12 “Look at Mother Nature on the Run”: ‘The Troubles’ in Adrian McKinty’s Sean Duffy Novels
	13 Environmental Crime and the Dialectics of Slow and Divine Violence in Poso Wells by Gabriela Alemán
Part III Epistemologies
	14 “Holmes, That’s Some Santa Claus Shit”: Reading Lydia Millet’s A Children’s Bible as Ecological Crime Fiction
	15 John D. MacDonald and the Advent of Ecocrime Fiction
	16 Choking to Death: True Crime and the Great Smog
	17 “Every Crime Has Its Peculiar Odor”: Detection, Deodorisation and Intoxication
	18 In Paolo Bacigalupi’s Environmental Science Fiction, Immoral and Criminal Are Not Synonymous
	19 From Crime Scene to Anthropocene in 2010s Argentinian Narrative
	20 Ecologemes in Contemporary Australian Crime Fiction: The Case of Outback Noir
Part IV Criminality and Justice
	21 Revising Crime in Fiction: An Environmental Invitation
	22 Criminal Violences: The Continuum of Settler Colonialism and Climate Crisis in Recent Indigenous Fiction
	23 Environmental Racism and Post-Katrina Crime Fiction
	24 Seeking Environmental Justice: Muti in Southern African Crime Fiction
	25 A Form of Wild Justice: Carl Hiaasen’s Deployment of Carnivalesque Environmental Ethics and Moral Technology
	26 Environmental Concerns in Carl Hiaasen’s Crime Fiction
	27 New Energy, Old Crime: Forms of Individual and Collective Responsibility in Nordic Crime Series
Part V Energy, Globality and Circulation
	28 “It Tasted Like Gasoline”: The American Roman Noir and the Oil Encounter in Elliott Chaze’s Black Wings Has My Angel (1953)
	29 Oil and the Hard-Boiled: Petromobility, Settler Colonialism and the Legacy of the American Century in Thomas King’s Cold Skies
	30 “The Whole World . . . Was a Gigantic Prison”: Climate Crisis and Carceral Capitalism in Rachel Kushner’s The Mars Room
	31 Reading Donna Leon as Mediterranean Eco-Noir
	32 The Circulation of Global Environmental Concerns: Local and International Perspectives in the Verdenero Collection and Donna Leon’s Crime Fiction
	33 Magic Seeds and the Living Dead: Investigating Transnational Ecocrimes in Rajat Chaudhuri’s The Butterfly Effect
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