Twentieth-Century Crime Fiction: Gender, Sexuality and the Body - new book

ISBN: 9780748610877

Twentieth-Century Crime Fiction is an illuminating and challenging critical study of this ever popular genre.In the book Gill Plain uses contemporary theories of gender and sexuality to c… More...

Twentieth-Century Crime Fiction is an illuminating and challenging critical study of this ever popular genre.In the book Gill Plain uses contemporary theories of gender and sexuality to challenge the dominant perception of crime fiction as a conservative genre. The rise of lesbian detectionand the impact of serial killing are considered alongside detailed analyses of works by popular writers such as Agatha Christie, Raymond Chandler, Dick Francis and Sara Paretsky.Beginning with a radical reconceptualisation of genre categories, the book goes on to consider recent revisions andreappropriations of the form.The final section focuses on textual pleasure and the destabilising of genre boundaries, raising the timely question of whether the queering of crime fiction represents a revitalising paradigm shift or the conceptual collapse of the genre. Books List_Books, [PU: Edinburgh University Press]<

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2001, ISBN: 9780748610877

Gender, Sexuality and the Body, Softcover, Buch, [PU: Edinburgh University Press]

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2001, ISBN: 9780748610877

Softcover, Buch, [PU: Edinburgh University Press]

Shipping costs:Versand in 10-15 Tagen, , Versandkostenfrei innerhalb der BRD (EUR 0.00)