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UNINA9910814855603321 |
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Titolo |
Crime fiction in the city : capital crimes / / edited by Lucy Andrew and Catherine Phelps |
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Cardiff, : University of Wales Press, 2013 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (164 p.) |
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Collana |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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AndrewLucy |
PhelpsCatherine |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Detective and mystery stories, English - History and criticism |
English fiction - History and criticism |
City and town life in literature |
Cities and towns in literature |
Criminals in literature |
Crime in literature |
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Lingua di pubblicazione |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Acknowledgements; Notes on Contributors; Introduction; Edinburgh; 'The map that engenders the territory'? Rethinking Ian Rankin's Edinburgh; Corralling Crime in Cardiff's Tiger Bay; Crimes and Contradictions: the Fictional City of Dublin; From National Authority to Urban Underbelly: Negotiations of Power in Stockholm Crime Fiction; Streets and Squares, Quartiers and Arrondissements: Paris Crime Scenes and the Poetics of Contestation in the Novels of Jean-François Vilar; The Mysteries of the Vatican: from Nineteenth-century Anti-clerical Propaganda to Dan Brown's Religious Thrillers |
A Tale of Three Cities: Megalopolitan Mysteries of the 1840's Conclusion; Index |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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A collection of academic essays by literary critics and writers of crime fiction - including a reflective essay by Ian Rankin on his own work - that explores the relationship between crime fiction and the urban spaces of the capital city. |
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