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BL
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1045273
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b799643
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| Main Entry
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Evans, Mary,1946-
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| Title & Author
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The imagination of evil : : detective fiction and the modern world /\ Mary Evans.
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| Publication Statement
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London ;New York :: Continuum,, ©2009.
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| Series Statement
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Continuum literary studies
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| Page. NO
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1 online resource (193 pages)
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| ISBN
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128245305X
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: 1441171738
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: 9781282453050
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: 9781441171733
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1441179682
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1847062067
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9781441179685
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9781847062062
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| Bibliographies/Indexes
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 176-181) and index.
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| Contents
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Introduction : crime writing -- Making crime -- The making of the detective -- Detecting the modern -- Illegal and immoral -- Are the times a' changing? -- The dream that failed -- 'On murder considered as one of the fine arts.
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| Abstract
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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 moderns 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. --From publisher's description.
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Detective and mystery stories-- History and criticism.
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Society in literature.
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Detective and mystery stories.
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LITERARY CRITICISM-- Mystery Detective.
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Society in literature.
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| Dewey Classification
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809.3872
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| LC Classification
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PN3448.D4E83 2009eb
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