Twentieth Century Crime Fiction : Gender, Sexuality and the Body
by
Gill Plain
Book Details
Format
Hardback or Cased Book
ISBN-10
1579583407
ISBN-13
9781579583408
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Inc
Imprint
Routledge Member of the Taylor and Francis Group
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Aug 1st, 2001
Print length
272 Pages
Weight
522 grams
Product Classification:
Literary studies: generalCrime & mystery
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"Twentieth-Century Crime Fiction" is a critical study of this ever-popular genre. It covers writers ranging from Agatha Christie to Raymond Chandler to Dick Francis to Sara Paretsky. The book investigates issues of gender, the body and sexuality in these popular crime fictions.
Offering an illuminating, challenging critical study of this genre, this book covers writers ranging from Agatha Christie to Raymond Chandler, Dick Francis to Sara Paretsky, while investigating issues of gender, the body and sexuality in these popular crime fictions. The book provides the first substantial critical work on twentieth-century crime from a gender perspective, as well as in-depth textual analysis often missing from studies of popular fiction. It also discusses the framework within which crime fiction might be studied, and offers analysis of key canonical crime writers set alongside both radical innovators and best-selling populists of the genre.
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