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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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Cote:Libro Electrónico
Auteur principal: Evans, Mary, 1946-
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: London ; New York : Continuum, ©2009.
Collection:Continuum literary studies.
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Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • 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.