Télécharger le livre :  British Murder Mysteries, 1880-1965
British Murder Mysteries, 1880-1965: Facts and Fictions conceptualizes detective fiction as an archive, i.e., a trove of documents and sources to be used for historical interpretation. By framing the genre as a shifting set of values, definitions, and practices, the...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2022-08-09
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Télécharger le livre :  Truth to Post-Truth in American Detective Fiction
Truth to Post-Truth in American Detective Fiction examines questions of truth and relativism, turning to detectives, both real and imagined, from Poe’s C. Auguste Dupin to Robert Mueller, to establish an oblique history of the path from a world where not believing...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2021-10-25
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Télécharger le livre :  The Detective's Companion in Crime Fiction
This book aims to establish the position of the sidekick character in the crime and detective fiction literary genres. It re-evaluates the traditional view that the sidekick character in these genres is often overlooked as having a small, generic or singular role—either...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2021-07-24
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Télécharger le livre :  Burial Plots in British Detective Fiction
Burial Plots in British Detective Fiction offers an overview of the ways in which the past is brought back to the surface and influences the present in British detective fiction written between 1920 and 2020. Exploring a range of authors including Agatha Christie,...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2021-01-24
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Télécharger le livre :  100 British Crime Writers
100 British Crime Writers explores a history of British crime writing between 1855 and 2015 through100 writers, detailing their lives and significant writing and exploring their contributions to the genre. Divided into four sections: ‘The Victorians, Edwardians, and...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2020-11-12
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Télécharger le livre :  Transnational Crime Fiction
Focusing on contemporary crime narratives from different parts of the world, this collection of essays explores the mobility of crimes, criminals and investigators across social, cultural and national borders. The essays argue that such border crossings reflect on...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2020-10-27
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Télécharger le livre :  Female Corpses in Crime Fiction
This book examines the central significance of sexualized female corpses in modern and contemporary Hispanic and Anglophone crime fiction. Beginning with the foundational detective fictions of the nineteenth century, it draws from diverse subgenres to describe a...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2018-10-10
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Télécharger le livre :  Detective Fiction and the Problem of Knowledge
This book establishes the genealogy of a subgenre of crime fiction that Antoine Dechêne calls the metacognitive mystery tale. It delineates a corpus of texts presenting 'unreadable' mysteries which, under the deceptively monolithic appearance of subverting...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2018-08-16
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Télécharger le livre :  Domestic Noir
This book represents the first serious consideration of the 'domestic noir' phenomenon and, by extension, the psychological thriller. The only such landmark collection since Lee Horsley's The Noir Thriller, it extends the argument for serious, academic study of crime...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2018-04-23
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Télécharger le livre :  Globalization and the State in Contemporary Crime Fiction
Why has crime fiction become a global genre? How do writers use crime fiction to reflect upon the changing nature of crime and policing in our contemporary world? This book argues that the globalization of crime fiction should not be celebrated uncritically....

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2016-09-23
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Télécharger le livre :  Queering Agatha Christie
This book is the first fully theorized queer reading of a Golden Age British crime writer. Agatha Christie was the most commercially successful novelist of the twentieth century, and her fiction remains popular. She created such memorable characters as Hercule Poirot...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2016-09-02
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Télécharger le livre :  Serial Crime Fiction
Serial Crime Fiction is the first book to focus explicitly on the complexities of crime fiction seriality. Covering definitions and development of the serial form, implications of the setting, and marketing of the series, it studies authors such as Doyle, Sayers,...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2016-02-12
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Télécharger le livre :  American TV Detective Dramas
The way detectives access and attain the 'truth' about a crime is an important indicator of how they relate to contemporary political developments. This book explores these methods of detection and positions the genre in a specific political, aesthetic, narrative and...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2016-02-04
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Télécharger le livre :  Criminal Femmes Fatales in American Hardboiled Crime Fiction
This book fills a gap in both literary and feminist scholarship by offering the first major study of femme fatales in hardboiled crime fiction. Maysaa Jaber shows that the criminal literary figures in the genre open up powerful spaces for imagining female agency in...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2016-02-02
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Télécharger le livre :  James Ellroy
James Ellroy: Demon Dog of Crime Fiction is a study of all of Ellroy's key works, from his debut novel Brown's Requiem to the epic Underworld USA trilogy. This book traces the development of Ellroy's writing style and the importance of his Demon Dog persona to carving...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2016-01-26
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Télécharger le livre :  Late Victorian Crime Fiction in the Shadows of Sherlock
This book investigates the development of crime fiction in the 1880s and 1890s, challenging studies of late-Victorian crime fiction which have given undue prominence to a handful of key figures and have offered an over-simplified analytical framework, thereby...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2014-09-26
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Télécharger le livre :  Detective Fiction and the Ghost Story
Detective Fiction and the Ghost Story is a lively series of case studies celebrating the close relationship between detective fiction and the ghost story. It features many of the most famous authors from both genres including Conan Doyle, Agatha Christie, M. R. James...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2014-07-15
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Télécharger le livre :  Dime Novels and the Roots of American Detective Fiction
This book reveals subversive representations of gender, race and class in detective dime novels (1860-1915), arguing that inherent tensions between subversive and conservative impulses—theorized as contamination and containment—explain detective fiction's ongoing...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2013-11-07
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Télécharger le livre :  Middlebrow Feminism in Classic British Detective Fiction
This is a feminist study of a recurring character type in classic British detective fiction by women - a woman who behaves like a Victorian gentleman. Exploring this character type leads to a new evaluation of the politics of classic detective fiction and the middlebrow...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2013-02-21
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Télécharger le livre :  Femininity, Crime and Self-Defence in Victorian Literature and Society
This exploration into the development of women's self-defence from 1850 to 1914 features major writers, including H.G. Wells, Elizabeth Robins and Richard Marsh, and encompasses an unusually wide-ranging number of subjects from hatpin crimes to the development of...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2012-10-26
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