Writings

Here are a few of my essays and articles. Most of these are published here under Creative Commons licenses, but one or two are published by permission. They are also in various styles, ranging from academic articles written years ago to the more personal, and frankly more readable. All of the pieces published here have appeared in print-only publications and are not easily available online anywhere else.

—Chris Routledge, July 2008

On Children’s Literature

“Children’s Detective Fiction and the ‘Perfect Crime’ of Adulthood.” In Gavin, Adrienne and Christopher Routledge (eds.) Mystery in Children’s Literature: From the Rational to the Supernatural. Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2001. pp. 64-81.

“Harry Potter and the Mystery of Ordinary Life.” In Gavin, Adrienne and Christopher Routledge (eds.) Mystery in Children’s Literature: From the Rational to the Supernatural. Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2001. pp. 202-209.

“The Tyranny of Thomas.” From The Reader, issue 25.

On Crime and Detective Fiction

“A Matter of Disguise: Locating the Self in Raymond Chandler’s The Big Sleep and The Long Goodbye.” Studies in the Novel vol 29, number 1., Spring 1997. pp. 94-107.

“The Pragmatics of Detection: Paul Auster’s City of Glass.“ With Siobhan Chapman. Language and Literature, vol. 8, 1999. pp. 241-253.

“Raymond Chandler on Writing.” in The Reader, issue 26

“A Study in Scarlet.” From The Reader, issue 29.

“The Flitcraft Parable.” In The Reader, issue 32.

I have also posted two sample entries on American crime writers Mignon G. Eberhart and Horace McCoy over on the project site for the book 100 American Crime Writers, which I am co-authoring with Esme Miskimmin.

Misc.

“Poe’s Tales.” From the Routledge Encyclopedia of the Romantic Era, 1750-1860, edited by Christopher John Murray, 2004.

“Declaration of Independence.” From The Reader, issue 19.

“Moby Dick.” From The Reader, issue 15.