Key Concepts in Crime Fiction
Published on 31. August 2011
Book
Paperback/Softback
240 pages
978-0-230-55125-1 (ISBN)
Description
An insight into a popular yet complex genre that has developed over the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The volume explores the contemporary anxieties to which crime fiction responds, along with society's changing conceptions of crime and criminality. The book covers texts, contexts and criticism in an accessible and user-friendly format.
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Series
Edition
2011
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Target group
College/higher education
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 140 mm
Thickness: 12 mm
Weight
303 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-230-55125-1 (9780230551251)
DOI
10.1007/978-0-230-34433-4
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Heather Worthington
Key Concepts in Crime Fiction
E-Book
08/2011
1st Edition
Bloomsbury Academic
€36.49
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Person
HEATHER WORTHINGTON lectures in the School of English, Philosophy and Communication at Cardiff University, UK, and is the author of The Rise of the Detective in Early Nineteenth-Century Popular Fiction (Palgrave Macmillan, 2005).
Content
General Editors' Preface .- Introductory Essay.- Chronology.- Contexts: History, Politics, Culture.- Literature: Texts, Themes, Issues.- Criticism: Approaches, Theory, Practice.- Index.