The imagination of evil : detective fiction and the modern world / / Mary Evans

• Autore: Evans Mary <1946->
• Pubblicazione: London ; ; New York, : Continuum, c2009
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (200 p.)
• Disciplina: 809.3872
• Soggetto topico: Detective and mystery stories - History and criticism; Society in literature
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. [176]-181) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: From 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 dete
• Titolo autorizzato: The imagination of evil
• ISBN: 1-282-45305-X; 1-4411-7173-8
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910824410103321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Continuum literary studies.