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The imagination of evil : detective fiction and the modern world /

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 moderns and to modernity. She focuses on...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Evans, Mary, 1946-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: London ; New York : Continuum, ©2009.
Series:Continuum literary studies.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : crime writing
  • Making crime
  • The making of the detective
  • Detecting the modern
  • Illegal and immoral
  • Are the times a' changing?
  • The dream that failed
  • 'On murder considered as one of the fine arts.