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Guilty but insane : mind and law in golden age detective fiction /
Guilty But Insane takes an historical approach to golden age detective fiction by Margery Allingham, Christianna Brand, Agatha Christie, Dorothy L. Sayers, and Gladys Mitchell. It examines how writers and readers of detective fiction during the 1920s to 1940s understood guilt, responsibility, and th...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York, NY :
Oxford University Press,
2015.
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| Edición: | First edition. |
| Colección: | Oxford textual perspectives.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Series; Guilty But Insane; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; List of Figures; Epigraph; Introduction: Death by Adaptation: The Case for Reading Detective Fiction; Theories of Mind: An Introduction; 1 Psychological Detection; 2 Guilty but Insane; 3 Born Criminals; 4 'The Concealed Enemy of the Self': Deviance and Dissociation; 5 Irrational Detection; Dénouement; References; Index.