The imagination of evil : detective fiction and the modern world
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The imagination of evil : detective fiction and the modern world
（Continuum literary studies）
Continuum, c2009
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- : pbk
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Bibliography: p. [176]-181
Includes index
内容説明・目次
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: pbk ISBN 9781441179685
内容説明
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 detective, the pursuer, is a social outsider: this status creates a complex web of relationships between detective, institutional life and dominant and subversive moralities. Evans questions who and what the detective stands for and suggests that the answer challenges many of our assumptions about the relationship between various moralities in the modern world.
目次
- Introduction: Crime Writing
- 1. Making Crime
- 2. The Making of the Detective
- 3. Detecting the Modern
- 4. Illegal and Immoral
- 5. Are The Times A' Changing?
- 6. The Dream That Failed
- 7. On Murder Considered as One of the Fine Arts'
- Bibliography
- Index.
- 巻冊次
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: hardback ISBN 9781847062062
内容説明
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 detective, the pursuer, is a social outsider: this status creates a complex web of relationships between detective, institutional life and dominant and subversive moralities. Evans questions who and what the detective stands for and suggests that the answer challenges many of our assumptions about the relationship between various moralities in the modern world.
目次
- 1. Setting the Scene
- 2. The Detection of Evil
- 3. Who is the Detective?
- 4. The Gender of Detection
- 5. The Guilt of the Social
- 6. The Detection of Crime
- Bibliography
- Index.
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