Télécharger le livre :  Narratives of Enclosure in Detective Fiction
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The locked room mystery is one of the iconic creations of popular fiction. Michael Cook's critical study reveals how this archetypal form of the puzzle story has had a significant effect in shaping the immensely popular genre of detective fiction. The book includes...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2011-10-12
Collection : Crime Files
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Télécharger le livre :  Masculinity, Crime and Self-Defence in Victorian Literature
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Now in paperback, this book considers crime fighting from the perspective of the civilian city-goer, from the mid-Victorian garotting panics to 1914. It charts the shift from the use of body armour to the adoption of exotic martial arts through the works of popular...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2010-12-03
Collection : Crime Files
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Télécharger le livre :  Women Writers and Detectives in Nineteenth-Century Crime Fiction
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This book is a study of the 'mothers' of the mystery genre. Traditionally the invention of crime writing has been ascribed to Poe, Wilkie Collins and Conan Doyle, but they had formidable women rivals, whose work has been until recently largely forgotten. The purpose of...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2010-07-16
Collection : Crime Files
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Télécharger le livre :  French and American Noir
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A longstanding misconception surrounding the term French noir suggests that the post-war French thriller and film noir were a development of, or response to, a pre-existing American tradition. This book challenges this misconception, examining the complexity of this...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2009-08-21
Collection : Crime Files
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Télécharger le livre :  A Counter-History of Crime Fiction
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This book takes a look at the evolution of crime fiction. Considering 'criminography' as a system of inter-related sub-genres, it explores the connections between modes of literature such as revenge tragedies, the gothic and anarchist fiction, while taking into account...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2007-09-05
Collection : Crime Files
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Télécharger le livre :  Agatha Christie: Power and Illusion
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This study shows how she sought to reconcile her attachment to the Victorian past with her recognition of a new society that undermined established order and in doing so gave more opportunities to women, confused class-boundaries, extended tolerance, allowed the cult of...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2007-07-31
Collection : Crime Files
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Télécharger le livre :  Deviance in Contemporary Crime Fiction
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This book explores the three aspects of deviance that contemporary crime fiction manipulates: linguistic, social, and generic. Gregoriou conducts case studies into crime series by James Patterson, Michael Connelly and Patricia Cornwell, and investigates the way in which...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2007-01-30
Collection : Crime Files
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Télécharger le livre :  Agatha Christie
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Christie's books depict women as adventurous, independent figures who renegotiate sexual relationships along more equal lines. Women are also allowed to disrupt society and yet the texts refuse to see them as double deviant because of their femininity. This book...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2006-10-10
Collection : Crime Files
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Télécharger le livre :  Masquerade, Crime and Fiction
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This study of crime and masquerade in fiction focuses upon the criminal as a 'performer'. Through stimulating discussions of a wide range of criminal types, Peach argues for the importance of novels that have been neglected. The book integrates incisive literary and...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2006-09-05
Collection : Crime Files
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