Bloomsbury Series on Crime Fiction

 BLOOMSBURY ACADEMIC

Crime Fiction 

SERIES EDITORS: 

Andrew Pepper, Queen’s University Belfast, UK 

Stewart King, Monash University, Australia 

Caroline Reitz, John Jay College/ CUNY, USA 

This series will produce exciting, new understandings of crime fiction and crime fiction criticism in their national and international contexts and as both a historical and contemporary phenomenon. Offering studies of crime fiction in its broadest terms (including print fiction, graphic novels, TV serials, film, podcasts and more), the series aims to reflect what is a vibrant and burgeoning field of study, global in its scope, transmedial in its understanding of genre, and interdisciplinary in its method. 

It will encourage works that consider under-examined national traditions of crime fiction from around the world and puts these traditions in conversation with those ‘established’ accounts of crime fiction as genres which have emerged from the likes of Britain, France, and the United States. Works published in the series will also think critically about crime’s respective traditions and explore the legacies and continuing effects of colonialism, racism, patriarchy, capitalism etc. and to interrogate crime fiction’s complex entanglements with the politics of race, gender, class, sexuality and religion in the contemporary. 

• To develop the field’s understanding of crime fiction texts and traditions in national contexts that remain underexplored in Anglophone criticism 
• To explore crime fiction within a wider regional and/or continental area 
• To address crime fiction as world literature (and related issues of translation and translatability). 
• To pursue connections between crime fiction texts that focus on themes such climate change and environmental politics; gendered violence; racial and economic injustice; sexual politics and identities; globalisation; extinction threats and global health issues. 
• To think about the ways that crime fiction as genre and crime fiction criticism engages with historical forms of oppression and their contemporary legacies 
• To offer exciting, innovative, theoretically informed ways of examining canonical crime fiction texts and authors, placing them in new national and international contexts. 
• To develop an understanding of the breadth and diversity of crime fiction in transmedial and interdisciplinary contexts 
• To think about the relationship between crime fiction and other genres (true crime, horror, speculative and science fiction etc.). 

Call for proposals 

To discuss an idea for a book in the series, please contact the Senior Commissioning Editor: 

Lucy Strong, Senior Commissioning Editor, Literary Studies & Creative Writing 

lucy.strong@bloomsbury.com