Crime Fiction Since 1800
Detection, Death, Diversity
Since its appearance nearly two centuries ago, crime fiction has gripped readers' imaginations around the world. Detectives have varied enormously: from the nineteenth-century policemen (and a few women), through stars like Sherlock Holmes and Miss Marple, to newly self-aware voices of the present - feminist, African American, lesbian, gay, postcolonial and postmodern.Stephen Knight's fascinating book is a comprehensive analytic survey of crime fiction from its origins in the nineteenth century to the present day. Knight explains how and why the various forms of the genre have evolved, explores a range of authors and movements, and argues tha…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-0-230-58074-9
- EAN: 9780230580749
- Produktnummer: 6381846
- Verlag: Macmillan Education UK
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2010
- Seitenangabe: 304 S.
- Masse: H21.5 cm x B14.0 cm x D1.8 cm 418 g
- Auflage: 2nd ed. 2010
- Abbildungen: 304 p.
- Gewicht: 418
- Sonstiges: Tertiary Education (US: College)
Über den Autor
STEPHEN KNIGHT is Distinguished Research Professor of English Literature at Cardiff University, UK. He is a leading authority on crime fiction and his previous publications include Form and Ideology in Crime Fiction, also published by Palgrave Macmillan.
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