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Irish crime fiction / Brian Cliff.
Van Pelt Library PR8807.D48 C55 2018
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Cliff, Brian, author.
- Series:
- Crime files series
- Crime files
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Crime in literature.
- Irish fiction.
- Detective and mystery stories, Irish (English)--History and criticism.
- Detective and mystery stories, Irish (English).
- English fiction--Irish authors--History and criticism.
- English fiction.
- English fiction--Irish authors.
- Physical Description:
- xi, 203 pages ; 22 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- London : Palgrave Macmillan, [2018]
- Summary:
- This book examines the recent expansion of Ireland's literary tradition to include home-grown crime fiction. It surveys the wave of books that use genre structures to explore specifically Irish issues such as the Troubles and the rise and fall of the Celtic Tiger, as well as Irish experiences of human trafficking, the supernatural, abortion, and civic corruption. These novels are as likely to address the national regulation of sexuality through institutions like the Magdalene Laundries as they are to follow serial killers through the American South or to trace international corporate conspiracies. This study includes chapters on Northern Irish crime fiction, novels set in the Republic, women protagonists, and transnational themes, and discusses Irish authors' adaptations of a well-loved genre and their effect on assumptions about the nature of Irish literature.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1137561874
- 9781137561879
- OCLC:
- 1013734545
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