The imagination of evil [electronic resource]
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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 dete
العنوان |
The imagination of evil [electronic resource] : detective fiction and the modern world / Mary Evans. |
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الناشر |
London New York : Continuum |
تاريخ الإصدار |
c2009 |
ملاحظات |
Description based upon print version of record. Includes bibliographical references (p. [176]-181) and index. English |
رقم الرف |
Contents Acknowledgements Introduction: Crime Writing Chapter 1: Making Crime Chapter 2: The Making of the Detective Chapter 3: Detecting the Modern Chapter 4: Illegal and Immoral Chapter 5: Are the Times a' Changing? Chapter 6: The Dream That Failed Chapter 7: 'On Murder Considered as One of the Fine Arts' Notes Bibliography Index |
سلسلة |
Continuum literary studies |
الشكل |
1 online resource (200 p.) |
اللغة |
الانكليزية |
رقم النظام |
997010705033805171 |
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