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Loading... The Imagination of Evil: Detective Fiction and the Modern Worldby Mary Evans
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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 modern 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 dete No library descriptions found. |
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Google Books — Loading... GenresMelvil Decimal System (DDC)809.3872Literature By Topic History, description and criticism of more than two literatures Fiction Genre Fiction Mystery and Speculative Fiction Horror, Crime, GothicLC ClassificationRatingAverage: No ratings.Is this you?Become a LibraryThing Author. |