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Twentieth-Century Crime Fiction : Gender, Sexuality and the Body /
Twentieth-Century Crime Fiction is an illuminating and challenging critical study of this ever popular genre.In the book Gill Plain uses contemporary theories of gender and sexuality to challenge the dominant perception of crime fiction as a conservative genre. The rise of lesbian detection and the...
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Edinburgh :
Edinburgh University Press,
[2022]
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Tabla de Contenidos:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Criminal desires
- Part I Establishing paradigms
- Introduction
- 1 Sacrificial bodies: the corporeal anxieties of Agatha Christie
- 2 When violet yes are smiling: the love stories of Raymond Chandler
- Part II The 'Normal sicence' of detection
- Introduction
- 3 Dividing the men from the boys: Joseph Hansen's economy of the same
- 4 Wounded masculinity and the Homosocial bond: fathers and lovers in the novels of Dick Francis
- 5 V. I. Warshawski and the little red shoes: Sara Paretsky's feminist fairy tales
- 6 Passing/out: the paradoxical possibilities of detective Delafield
- Part III Shifting paradigms
- Introduction
- 7 Out of order: lesbian detection textual pleasure
- 8 Consuming the boundaries of crime: serial killing and the taste for violence
- 9 Postscript: the death of detective?
- Bibliography
- Index