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Twentieth Century Crime Fiction: Gender, Sexuality and the Body
Contributor(s): Plain, Gill (Author)
ISBN: 1579583407     ISBN-13: 9781579583408
Publisher: Routledge
OUR PRICE:   $109.25  
Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats
Published: August 2001
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Offering an illuminating, challenging critical study of this genre, this book covers writers ranging from Agatha Christie to Raymond Chandler, Dick Francis to Sara Paretsky, while investigating issues of gender, the body and sexuality in these popular crime fictions. The book provides the first substantial critical work on twentieth-century crime from a gender perspective, as well as in-depth textual analysis often missing from studies of popular fiction. It also discusses the framework within which crime fiction might be studied, and offers analysis of key "canonical" crime writers set alongside both radical innovators and best-selling populists of the genre.

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BISAC Categories:
- Literary Criticism | Mystery & Detective Fiction
Dewey: 823.087
LCCN: 2002265562
Physical Information: 0.8" H x 6.38" W x 9.76" (1.16 lbs) 272 pages
 
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Publisher Description:
First Published in 2001. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.