Blackboard Test (short answers) 25% (LOs 1-2)
2500 word Essay 75% (LOs 1-4)

Key Information Set Data:
25% written exam
75% coursework

This module will trace the development of crime and detective fiction in the US from the seminal work of Poe in the nineteenth century up to the present day. The novels and film are arranged chronologically and classes will focus on socio-historical contexts, the treatment and `policing¿ of social anxieties, the maintenance of established political and economic orders, the representations of the detective and the criminal, literary movements and styles and the application of key critical contexts such as class, gender and sexuality, and race.

Edgar Allan Poe, `The Murders in the Rue Morgue' (1841)
Raymond Chandler, The Big Sleep (1939)
Truman Capote, In Cold Blood (1966)
Paul Auster, The New York Trilogy (1987)
Walter Mosley, Devil in a Blue Dress (1990)
Julie Anne Robinson (dir), One for the Money (2012) - adapted from the novel by Janet Evanovich (1994)

Delivery is by small group seminars (2 hours) at the start of Block 3 and then through the VLE for the remainder of the semester.

Key Information Set Data:
6.7% scheduled learning and teaching activities
93.3% guided independent learning

DVD, Library.
The Blackboard virtual learning environment will be available (where relevant) to support this module. Details will be supplied in the module handbook.

Dennis Porter. The Pursuit of Crime. New Haven: Yale, 1981
Martin Priestman. Crime Fiction: from Poe to the Present. Plymouth: Northcote House, 1998
Knight, Stephen. Crime fiction, 1800-2000 : detection, death, diversity. Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan, 2004
Julian Symons. Bloody Murder. London: Faber and Faber, 1972