Unwilling Executioner - Crime Fiction and the State

Zusatztext Pepper offers nothing less than a long history of the crime novel as world literature, its roots in England but its branches universal. Informationen zum Autor Andrew Pepper is Senior Lecturer in English and American literature at Queen's University Belfast. He has written extensively about crime fiction over a twenty year period and is the author of The Contemporary American Crime Novel: Race, Ethnicity, Gender, Class (Edinburgh University Press, 2000) and co-editor, with David Schmid, of Globalization and the State in Contemporary Crime Fiction (Palgrave, 2016). He is also the author of five detective novels set in nineteenth-century Britain and Ireland, all published by Weidenfeld & Nicolson, including The Last Days of Newgate (2006), The Detective Branch (2010) and Bloody Winter (2011). Klappentext Unwilling Executioner is the first book to examine the deep-rooted relationship between the development of crime fiction as a genre and the consolidation of the modern state. Zusammenfassung Unwilling Executioner is the first book to examine the deep-rooted relationship between the development of crime fiction as a genre and the consolidation of the modern state. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface Introduction: Crime Fiction as Unwilling Executioner 1: 'A life of horrid and inimitable wickedness': Crime, Law and Punishment in Early Eighteenth-Century London and Paris 2: 'Let us attack injustice at its source': Crime Literature in an Era of Revolution and Reform 3: 'A mysterious power whose hand is everywhere': Imagining the State and Codifying the Law in the Mid-Nineteenth Century 4: Crime, Business, and Liberty at the Turn of the Century: the Individual, the State and the Emergence of Modern Capitalism 5: 'No Good for Business': States of Crime in the 1920s and 1930s 6: 'On the Barricades': Crime Fiction and Commitment in an Era of Radical Politics 7: 1. From Sovereignty to Neoliberalism: Crime Fiction in the Contemporary World Conclusion Select Bibliography ...

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Andrew Pepper, Andrew (Queen's University Belfast Pepper, Andrew (Queen''s University Belfast Pepper, Pepper Andrew
• Editore: Oxford University Press
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pubblicazione: 07.04.2016
• EAN: 9780198716181
• ISBN: 978-0-19-871618-1
• Pagine: 282
• Categorie: Scienze sociali, diritto, economia > Diritto > Diritto internazionale, diritto degli stranieri; Scienze umane, arte, musica > Storia > XX° secolo (fino al 1945); Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900, History, HISTORY / General, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, 18th century, c 1700 to c 1799, Literary studies: general, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, LITERARY CRITICISM / Novel as Form