Fiction, Crime, and Empire: Clues to Modernity and Postmodernism

ISBN-10: 0252062809
ISBN-13: 9780252062803
Category: Crime in literature
Pages: 200
Language: English
Published: 1993
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Author: Jon Thompson

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Reading fiction from high and low culture together, Fiction, Crime, and Empire skillfully sheds light on how crime fiction responded to the British and American experiences of empire, and how forms such as the detective novel, spy thrillers, and conspiracy fiction articulate powerful cultural responses to imperialism. Poe's Dupin stories, for ......

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