Watching the detectives : essays on crime fiction
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Watching the detectives : essays on crime fiction
Macmillan, 1990
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Includes index
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Description
In this collection of essays, a number of critics offer commentary on the crime fiction genre, exploring the kinds of pleasure it offers. Looking under the attractive surface of these books, the contributors discover a number of complex issues. They show that crime fiction can discuss the status of women, the nature of law and the possibilities of truth. It can also confirm or disrupt contemporary notions of criminality and citizenship, and may even be capable of sustained radicalism. Ian A.Bell has also written "Defoe's Fiction". Graham Daldry has also written "Charles Dickens and the Form of the Novel".
Table of Contents
- Irony and justice in Patricia Highsmith, Ian A.Bell
- "This Shitty Urban Machine Humanized..." - the urban crime novel and the novels of William McIlvanney, Simon Dentith
- the voices of George V Higgins, Graham Daldry
- investigating women - the female sleuth after feminism, Lyn Pykett
- the phantom at the limits of criminology, Richard W.Ireland
- "real" detectives and "fictional" criminals, John Simons
- unravelling a web - writer versus reader in Edgar Allan Poe's tales of detection, F.C.Lewis
- Chandler's cannibalism, Maldwyn Mills
- "home" is where the hearth is - the Englishness of Agatha Christie's Marple novels, Anna-Marie Taylor
- "Loving and Lying" - multiple identity in John Le Carre's "A Perfect Spy", Tony Barley
- radical thrillers, Stephen Knight.
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