Fiction, Crime, and Empire Clues to Modernity and Postmodernism |
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| Author:
| Thompson, Jon |
| ISBN: | 978-0-252-06280-3 |
| Publication Date: | Jan 1993 |
| Publisher: | University of Illinois Press
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | AUD $49.99 |
Book Description:
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Reading fiction from high and low culture together, Fiction, Crime, and Empire skillfully sheds light on how crime fiction responded to the British and American experiences of empire, and how forms such as the detective novel, spy thrillers, and conspiracy fiction articulate powerful cultural responses to imperialism. Poe's Dupin stories, for ......
Reading fiction from high and low culture together, Fiction, Crime, and Empire skillfully sheds light on how crime fiction responded to the British and American experiences of empire, and how forms such as the detective novel, spy thrillers, and conspiracy fiction articulate powerful cultural responses to imperialism. Poe's Dupin stories, for ......