03021nam 2200649 a 450 991080887660332120240513054316.01-282-91261-597866129126101-4411-5662-3(CKB)2670000000059782(EBL)617191(OCoLC)693761522(SSID)ssj0000432823(PQKBManifestationID)12104428(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000432823(PQKBWorkID)10375163(PQKB)10151367(SSID)ssj0001293074(PQKBManifestationID)12472448(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001293074(PQKBWorkID)11304770(PQKB)11448944(MiAaPQ)EBC617191(Au-PeEL)EBL617191(CaPaEBR)ebr10432534(CaONFJC)MIL291261(EXLCZ)99267000000005978220101220d2011 uy 0engur|n|||||||||txtccrAdapting detective fiction crime, Englishness and the TV detectives /Neil McCaw1st ed.London ;New York Continuum20111 online resource (209 p.)Continuum literary studiesDescription based upon print version of record.1-4411-8617-4 1-84706-307-1 Includes bibliographical references and index.Contents; Acknowledgements; Chapter 1: Introduction - Adaptation and Cultural History; Chapter 2: Sherlock Holmes and the Authenticity of Crime; Chapter 3: Miss Marple, Criminality and Englishness; Chapter 4: Morse, Heritage and the End of History; Chapter 5: Jack Frost and the Condition of England Question; Chapter 6: Cadfael, Medievalism and Modern Nationhood; Chapter 7: DCI Barnaby and an English Aesthetics of Crime; Chapter 8: Conclusion - Detecting the Nation; Notes; Bibliography; IndexAdapting Detective Fiction is a study of specific instances of adaptation, with close readings of both the originating sources and adapted texts. But it is also more than this. It is a study of the politics of representation in the last decades of the twentieth century, and the role television detective fiction plays in this. It is about the mutually-informing interrelation of cultural texts and political rhetoric, about the connection between the popular-cultural depiction of crime and criminality and how we come to understand human behaviour and culpability; most of all, it is a detailed conContinuum literary studies.Detective and mystery stories, EnglishTelevision adaptationsDetective and mystery stories, English791.456556McCaw Neil1642170MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910808876603321Adapting detective fiction3986732UNINA