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The Imagination of Evil - (Continuum Literary Studies) by Mary Evans (Paperback)
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Highlights
- 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.
- About the Author: Mary Evans is Visiting Fellow at the Gender Institute at the London School of Economics, UK.
- 208 Pages
- Literary Criticism, Mystery & Detective
- Series Name: Continuum Literary Studies
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About the Book
A monograph investigating the way in which detective fiction reflects wider issues in society.Book Synopsis
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.
About the Author
Mary Evans is Visiting Fellow at the Gender Institute at the London School of Economics, UK.