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The Imagination of Evil: Detective Fiction and the Modern World (Continuum Literary Studies) Book
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This is a monograph investigating the way in which detective fiction reflects wider issues in society. 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.
- 1847062067
- 9781847062062
- Mary Evans
- 22 October 2009
- Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd.
- Hardcover (Book)
- 193
- 1st Edition
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