Murder by the Book?: Crime Fiction and Feminism (Narrative Forms and Social Formations)
by Sally Rowena Munt
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Murder by the Book? is a thorough - and thoroughly enjoyable - look at the blossoming genre of the feminist crime novel in Britain and the United States. Sally Munt asks why the form has proved so attractive as a vehicle for oppositional politics; whether the pleasures of detective fiction can be truly transgressive; and when exactly it was that the dyke detective appeared as the new super-hero for today. Along the way Munt poses some critical questions about the relations between fiction show more and activism, politics and representations, the writer and the reader. This will be an enticing book both for addicts of the genre and for teachers and their students. show lessTags
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Sally R. Munt is Professor of Media and Cultural Studies at the University of Sussex, UK.
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- Literature Studies and Criticism, Fiction and Literature
- DDC/MDS
- 823.0872099287 — Literature & rhetoric English & Old English literatures English fiction By type Genre fiction Adventure fiction Mystery fiction Mystery anthologies
- LCC
- PR888 .D4 .M87 — Language and Literature English English Literature Prose Prose fiction. The novel
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