Brian Cliff

Irish Crime Fiction

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This book examines the recent expansion of Ireland's literary tradition to include home-grown crime fiction. It surveys the wave of books that use genre structures to explore specifically Irish issues such as the Troubles and the rise and fall of the Celtic Tiger, as well as Irish experiences of human trafficking, the supernatural, abortion, and civic corruption. These novels are as likely to address the national regulation of sexuality through institutions like the Magdalene Laundries as they are to follow serial killers through the American South or to trace international corporate conspiracies. This study includes chapters on Northern Iris… Mehr

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Produktdetails

ISBN: 978-1-137-56187-9
EAN: 9781137561879
Produktnummer: 25066703
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2018
Seitenangabe: 203 S.
Masse: H21.6 cm x B15.3 cm x D1.6 cm 398 g
Abbildungen: Book; Bibliographie
Gewicht: 398

Über den Autor

Brian Cliff is Assistant Professor in the School of English at Trinity College Dublin, Ireland. His recent publications include essays on John Connolly, Tana French, and Deirdre Madden, and Synge and Edwardian Ireland (2012), co-edited with Nicholas Grene. In November 2013, he co-organized Irish Crime Fiction: A Festival in Dublin, which featured 18 Irish and Irish-American crime novelists. He is currently completing a monograph about community and contemporary Irish writing.