UNWILLING EXECUTIONER by Andrew Pepper ( 9780198716181 ) - Books & Audio Books at Pickabook.co.uk

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UNWILLING EXECUTIONER
CRIME FICTION AND THE STATE

By:

Andrew Pepper

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Hardback

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0198716184

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9780198716181

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Publisher:

OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS

Pub. date:

7 April, 2016

Pages:

288

Description:

Unwilling Executioner is the first book to examine the deep-rooted relationship between the development of crime fiction as a genre and the consolidation of the modern state.

Synopsis:

What gives crime fiction its distinctive shape and form? What makes it such a compelling vehicle of social and political critique? Unwilling Executioner argues that the answer lies in the emerging genre's complex and intimate relationship with the bureaucratic state and modern capitalism, and the contradictions that ensue once the state assumes control of the criminal justice system. This study offers a dramatic new interpretation of the genre's emergence and evolution over a three hundred year period and as a genuinely transnational phenomenon. From its roots in the tales of criminality circulated widely in Paris and London in the early eighteenth century, this book examines the extraordinary richness, diversity and complexity of the genre's subsequent thematizations of crime and policing-moving from France and Britain and from continental Europe and the United States to other parts of the globe. In doing so it offers new ways of reading established crime novelists like Gaboriau, Doyle, Hammet

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