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Class and culture in crime fiction : essays on works in English since the 1970s
- Title
- Class and culture in crime fiction : essays on works in English since the 1970s / edited by Julie H. Kim.
- Publication
- Jefferson, North Carolina : McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, [2014]
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Details
- Additional Authors
- Kim, Julie H.
- Description
- viii, 230 pages; 23 cm
- Summary
- "The crime fiction world of the late 1970s, with its increasingly diverse landscape, is a natural beginning for this collection of critical studies focusing on the intersections of class, culture and crime. This collection of ten new essays raises broad and complicated questions about the role of class and culture in transatlantic crime fiction"--
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Introduction: class, culture and crime beyond the Golden Age / Julie H. Kim -- Morse, Frost and the mystery of the English working class / Neil McCaw -- The poet Dalgliesh and Kate from the Block: P.D. James's partners in crime / Janice Shaw -- "Listen to the silence": dismantling the myth of a classless society in the fiction of Marcia Muller and Sara Paretsky / Heath A. Diehl -- In poor taste: morality and Sue Grafton / Suzanne Penuel -- The symbolic and the semiotic of class and gender in Caleb Carr / Gretchen M. Cohenour -- Denise Mina's feminist detectives: investigating the crimes of capitalist patriarchy in The End of the Wasp Season / Irmak Ertuna-Howison -- Schemes, overworlds and spatial justice in Black, Mina and Rankin / Peter Clandfield -- Fables of foreclosure: Tana French's police procedurals of recessionary Ireland / Jean Gregorek -- The rising tide of neoliberalism: Attica Locke's Black Water Rising and "the new Jim Crow" / Ryan Poll -- "Verticality is such a risky enterprise": class epistemologies and the critique of upward mobility in Colson Whitehead's The Intuitionist / Tim Libretti.
- Call Number
- JFE 14-4843
- ISBN
- 9780786473236 (softcover : alk. paper)
- 0786473231 (softcover : alk. paper)
- 9781476615387 (ebook) (canceled/invalid)
- LCCN
- 2014007226
- OCLC
- 864097224
- Title
- Class and culture in crime fiction : essays on works in English since the 1970s / edited by Julie H. Kim.
- Publisher
- Jefferson, North Carolina : McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, [2014]
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Added Author
- Kim, Julie H., editor.
- Research Call Number
- JFE 14-4843