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The Imagination of Evil

By Mary Evans

The Imagination of Evil

By Mary Evans

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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 detective, the pursuer, is a social outsider: this status creates a complex web of relationships between detective, institutional life and dominant and subversive moralities. Evans questions who and what the detective stands for and suggests that the answer challenges many of our assumptions about the relationship between various moralities in the modern world.
Product details
Edition:
1
Number of Pages:
200
Release Date:
2009-12-08
Publication Date:
2009-10-09
Publisher:
Continnuum-3PL
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
1847062067
ISBN13:
9781847062062
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
470 g
Height:
161 cm
Width:
240 cm
Thickness:
15 cm
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