Crime Writing in Interwar Britain - Fact and Fiction in the Golden Age

Considering a range of neglected material, this book provides a richer view of how crime and criminality were understood between the wars.

List of contents

1. Revisiting Victorian sensations; 2. F. Tennyson Jesse and the modern murderer; 3. In search of the perfect crime: Dorothy L. Sayers and detection in fact and fiction; 4. Dangerous men in interwar writing.

About the author

Victoria Stewart is Reader in Modern and Contemporary Literature at the University of Leicester. She has published widely on topics including war writing, the middlebrow, life-writing and detective fiction. She is the author of Women's Autobiography: War and Trauma (2003), Narratives of Memory: British Writing of the 1940s (2006) and The Second World War in Contemporary Fiction: Secret Histories (2011).

Summary

While detective fiction was hugely popular in interwar Britain, a wealth of other kinds of factual and fictional crime writing was also widely read during these years. This book examines some of this neglected material and provides a more complex view of how crime and criminality were understood between the wars.

Product details

• Authors: Victoria Stewart, Victoria (University of Leicester) Stewart, Stewart Victoria
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.08.2017
• EAN: 9781316510001
• ISBN: 978-1-316-51000-1
• No. of pages: 214
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Essays, feuilletons, literary criticism, interviews; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, Reportage & collected journalism, United Kingdom, Great Britain, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Crime & criminology, c 1918 to c 1939 (Inter-war period), Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000