عنوان

The imagination of evil :

(Number (ISBN

128245305X

(Number (ISBN

1441171738

(Number (ISBN

9781282453050

(Number (ISBN

9781441171733

Erroneous ISBN

1441179682

Erroneous ISBN

1847062067

Erroneous ISBN

9781441179685

Erroneous ISBN

9781847062062

Number

b799643

Title Proper

The imagination of evil :

General Material Designation

[Book]

Other Title Information

detective fiction and the modern world /

First Statement of Responsibility

Mary Evans.

Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.

New York :

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

Continuum,

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

©2009.

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

1 online resource (193 pages)

Series Title

Continuum literary studies

Text of Note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 176-181) and index.

Text of Note

Introduction : crime writing -- Making crime -- The making of the detective -- Detecting the modern -- Illegal and immoral -- Are the times a' changing? -- The dream that failed -- 'On murder considered as one of the fine arts.

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Text of Note

From its growth in Europe in the nineteenth century detective fiction has developed into one of the most popular genres of literature and popular culture more widely. In this monograph, Mary Evans examines detective fiction and its complex relationship to the moderns and to modernity. She focuses on two key themes: the moral relationship of detection (and the detective) to a particular social world and the attempt to restore and even improve the social world that has been threatened and fractured by a crime, usually that of murder. It is a characteristic of much detective fiction that the detective, the pursuer, is a social outsider: this status creates a complex web of relationships between detective, institutional life and dominant and subversive moralities. Evans questions who and what the detective stands for and suggests that the answer challenges many of our assumptions about the relationship between various moralities in the modern world. --From publisher's description.

Title

Imagination of evil.

Detective and mystery stories-- History and criticism.

Society in literature.

Detective and mystery stories.

LITERARY CRITICISM-- Mystery & Detective.

Society in literature.

DSB

LIT-- 004230

Number

Edition

Class number

Book number

Evans, Mary,1946-

Date of Transaction

20201207120545.0

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Electronic name

[Book]

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