02773nam 22006134a 450 991082441010332120240505165456.01-282-45305-X1-4411-7173-8(CKB)2550000000005758(EBL)476529(OCoLC)647872958(SSID)ssj0001145962(PQKBManifestationID)12402858(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001145962(PQKBWorkID)11123155(PQKB)11051985(MiAaPQ)EBC476529(Au-PeEL)EBL476529(CaPaEBR)ebr10364037(CaONFJC)MIL245305(OCoLC)893334784(EXLCZ)99255000000000575820100108d2009 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrThe imagination of evil detective fiction and the modern world /Mary Evans1st ed.London ;New York Continuumc20091 online resource (200 p.)Continuum literary studiesDescription based upon print version of record.1-4411-7968-2 1-84706-206-7 Includes bibliographical references (p. [176]-181) and index.Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction: Crime Writing; Chapter 1: Making Crime; Chapter 2: The Making of the Detective; Chapter 3: Detecting the Modern; Chapter 4: Illegal and Immoral; Chapter 5: Are the Times a' Changing?; Chapter 6: The Dream That Failed; Chapter 7: 'On Murder Considered as One of the Fine Arts'; Notes; Bibliography; IndexFrom its growth in Europe in the nineteenth century, detective fiction has developed into one of the most popular genres of literature and popular culture more widely. In this monograph, Mary Evans examines detective fiction and its complex relationship to the modern and to modernity. She focuses on two key themes: the moral relationship of detection (and the detective) to a particular social world and the attempt to restore and even improve the social world that has been threatened and fractured by a crime, usually that of murder. It is a characteristic of much detective fiction that the deteContinuum literary studies.Detective and mystery storiesHistory and criticismSociety in literatureDetective and mystery storiesHistory and criticism.Society in literature.809.3872Evans Mary1946-867210MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910824410103321The imagination of evil4122455UNINA