The Imagination of Evil
Detective Fiction and the Modern World
From its growth in Europe in the nineteenth century, detective fiction has developed into one of the most popular genres of literature and popular culture more widely. In this monograph, Mary Evans examines detective fiction and its complex relationship to the modern and to modernity. She focuses on two key themes: the moral relationship of detection (and the detective) to a particular social world and the attempt to restore and even improve the social world that has been threatened and fractured by a crime, usually that of murder. It is a characteristic of much detective fiction that the detective, the pursuer, is a social outsider: this sta…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-1-4411-7173-3
- EAN: 9781441171733
- Produktnummer: 17020559
- Verlag: Bloomsbury UK
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2009
- Seitenangabe: 208 S.
- Plattform: PDF
- Masse: 1'129 KB
Über den Autor
Mary Evans is Visiting Fellow at the Gender Institute at the London School of Economics, UK.
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