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Detecting the Social - Order and Disorder in Post-1970s Detective Fiction (Paperback, 1st ed. 2019)
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Detecting the Social - Order and Disorder in Post-1970s Detective Fiction (Paperback, 1st ed. 2019)
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This book analyses the ways in which twenty-first century detective
fiction provides an understanding of the increasingly complex and
often baffling contemporary world - and what sociology, as a
discipline, can learn from it. Conventional sociological accounts
of fiction generally comprehend its value in terms of the ways in
which it can illustrate, enlarge or help to articulate a particular
social theory. Evans, Moore, and Johnstone suggest a different
approach, and demonstrate that by taking a group of detective
novels, we can unveil so far unidentified, but crucial, theoretical
ideas about what it means to be an individual in the twenty-first
century. More specifically, the authors argue that detective
fiction of the last forty years illuminates the effects of urban
isolation and separation, the invisibility of institutional power,
financial insecurity, and the failure of public authorities to
protect people. In doing so, this body of fiction traces out the
fault-lines in our social arrangements, rehearses our collective
fears, and captures a mood of restless disquiet. By engaging with
detective stories in this way, the book revisits ideas about the
promise and purpose of sociology.
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