| Description |
1 online resource (ix, 241 pages) |
| Series |
Crime files |
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Crime files series.
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| Contents |
Introduction -- Part I: Fictive Facticity -- Policing in the Shadow of Jack the Ripper and Sherlock Holmes: Myths, Monsters, and the Declining Reputation of the Late-Victorian Detective -- Murder in the House of Commons (1931): Mary Agnes Hamilton's Fictions of Politics -- Domesticating the Horrors of Modern War: Civil Defense and the Wartime British Murder Mystery -- Part II. Genre fluidity -- Semicolonial Horsewifery as Detective Fiction: "Trinket's Colt" and the Mysteries of the Irish R.M. -- Magic is My Business": Raymond Chandler and Detective Fiction as Modern Fairy Tale -- "Indecently Preposterous": The Interwar Press and Golden Age Detective Fiction -- Part III. Conservative modernity -- Agatha Christie in Southern Africa -- Death haunts the hotel |
| Summary |
British Murder Mysteries, 1880-1965: Facts and Fictions conceptualizes detective fiction as an archive, i.e., a trove of documents and sources to be used for historical interpretation. By framing the genre as a shifting set of values, definitions, and practices, the book historicizes the contested meanings of analytical categories like class, race, gender, nation, and empire that have been applied to the forms and functions of detection. Three organizing themes structure this investigation: fictive facticity, genre fluidity, and conservative modernity. This volume thus shows how British detective fiction from the late-nineteenth to the mid-twentieth century both shaped and was shaped by its social, cultural, and political contexts and the lived experience of its authors and readers at critical moments in time |
| Analysis |
English Literature |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed August 19, 2022) |
| Subject |
Detective and mystery stories, English -- History and criticism
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English fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticism
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English fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism
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Detective and mystery stories, English
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English fiction
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Mayhall, Laura E. Nym, 1963- editor.
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Prevost, Elizabeth E., editor.
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| ISBN |
9783031071591 |
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303107159X |
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