Includes bibliographical references (pages 177-180) and index.
Mocking modernity -- Gender and performance in the criminal masquerade -- The cadaver as criminalised text -- Where does that criminality come from? Writing women and crime -- Agatha Christie, Dorothy L. Sayers and Sara Paretsky : the new woman -- Masquerade, criminality and desire in Toni Morrison's Love -- Writing the serial and callous killer into (post) modernity.
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"Focusing upon the surprisingly neglected area of the criminal as a 'performer', Masquerade, Crime and Fiction offers a new framework within which to read literary and popular fiction about crime and criminality."--Jacket.
Crime in literature.
Detective and mystery stories, American-- History and criticism.
Detective and mystery stories, English-- History and criticism.
Masquerades in literature.
Popular literature-- English-speaking countries-- History and criticism.