Unwilling executioner : crime fiction and the state / Andrew Pepper.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Pepper, Andrew, 1969- author.

Language:

Elamite

Subjects (All):

Detective and mystery stories--History and criticism.

Detective and mystery stories.

Politics and literature.

Physical Description:

ix, 269 pages ; 24 cm

Edition:

Firrst edition.

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2016.

Contents:

1. 'A life of horrid and inimitable wickedness' : crime, law and punishment in early eighteenth-century London and Paris

2. 'Let us attack injustice at its source' : crime literature in an era of revolution and reform

3. 'A mysterious power whose hand is everywhere' : imagining the state and codifying the law in the mid-nineteenth century

4. Crime, business, and liberty at the turn of the century : the individual, the state, and the emergence of modern capitalism

5. 'No good business' : states of crime in the 1920s and 1930s

6. 'On the barricades' : crime fiction and commitment in an era of radical politics

7. From sovereignty to Neoliberalism : crime fiction in the contemporary world.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [253]-264) and index.

ISBN:

9780198716181

0198716184

OCLC:

948261698