Strange Countries and Secret Worlds in Ruth Rendell's Crime Novels
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4487479 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Lisa Kadonaga (University of Victoria, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2010 |
| Volume | 88 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 413-428 |
| Publication date | 2010-04-21 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Geographical Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0016-7428 • E-ISSN: 1931-0846 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/j.1931-0846.1998.tb00115.x |
| OpenAlex | W2048321216 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 11 |
| References cited | 20 |
Mystery novels and academic geography have not often intersected. Yet crime fiction can incorporate spatial relationships and real-life regional characteristics. In recent decades mysteries have been freed from the long tradition of presenting elaborate puzzles, and now they feature human interactions in realistic settings. Writers like Ruth Rendell integrate place into their character development and plot lines. Rendell depicts changing urban landscapes in late-twentieth-century England and effectively explores contemporary British culture
Aesthetics · Art · Art history · Character (mathematics · Plot (graphics · Crime and Detective Fiction Studies · Gothic Literature and Media Analysis · History · Spatial and Cultural Studies
North to South through a Post-Feminist Prism
Domestic Fracturing in Ruth Rendell’s Early Stand-Alone Novels
Watch the Words Fall onto Paper in a Tangled Code”
A masculinist northern wilderness and the emancipatory potential of literary irony
Local Attention
Laughing at northernness
Politics of literary humour and contested narrative identity (of a region with no identity)
Creativity and Geography
| Unique citing works | 8 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,58 |
| Citation span | 2007 - 2022 (16) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 11 |