Crime fiction in the city [[electronic resource] ] : capital crimes / / edited by Lucy Andrew and Catherine Phelps

• Pubblicazione: Cardiff, : University of Wales Press, 2013
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (164 p.)
• Disciplina: 809.933556
• Soggetto topico: 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
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Altri autori: AndrewLucy PhelpsCatherine
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Crime fiction in the city
• ISBN: 0-7083-2587-4
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910463315403321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: European crime fictions.