02873nam 2200625 450 991046413330332120200520144314.00-19-872333-40-19-103492-4(CKB)2670000000591573(EBL)1934263(SSID)ssj0001433371(PQKBManifestationID)11801094(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001433371(PQKBWorkID)11415578(PQKB)11444236(MiAaPQ)EBC1934263(Au-PeEL)EBL1934263(CaPaEBR)ebr11014164(CaONFJC)MIL718403(OCoLC)902956842(EXLCZ)99267000000059157320150211h20152015 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrGuilty but insane mind and law in Golden Age detective fiction /Samantha WaltonFirst edition.New York, New York :Oxford University Press,2015.©20151 online resource (321 p.)Oxford Textual PerspectivesDescription based upon print version of record.0-19-872332-6 1-322-87121-3 Includes bibliographical references and index.Cover; Series; Guilty But Insane; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; List of Figures; Epigraph; Introduction: Death by Adaptation: The Case for Reading Detective Fiction; Theories of Mind: An Introduction; 1 Psychological Detection; 2 Guilty but Insane; 3 Born Criminals; 4 'The Concealed Enemy of the Self': Deviance and Dissociation; 5 Irrational Detection; Dénouement; References; IndexGuilty But Insane takes an historical approach to golden age detective fiction by Margery Allingham, Christianna Brand, Agatha Christie, Dorothy L. Sayers, and Gladys Mitchell. It examines how writers and readers of detective fiction during the 1920s to 1940s understood guilt, responsibility, and the workings of the mind as they related to the commission, the investigation, and the punishment of crime. Under the lens of psychology, the detective novel isrevealed as a site for the negotiation of competing interpretations of sanity and insanity. An unexplored depth and subtlety is revealed in deOxford textual perspectives.Detective and mystery storiesHistory and criticismMental illness in literatureElectronic books.Detective and mystery storiesHistory and criticism.Mental illness in literature.823.087209Walton Samantha873300MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910464133303321Guilty but insane1949540UNINA