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A Counter-History of Crime Fiction - Supernatural, Gothic, Sensational (Hardcover) Loot Price: R2,784
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A Counter-History of Crime Fiction - Supernatural, Gothic, Sensational (Hardcover): Maurizio Ascari

A Counter-History of Crime Fiction - Supernatural, Gothic, Sensational (Hardcover)

Maurizio Ascari

Series: Crime Files

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Nominated for the Mystery Writers of America 'Edgar Awards'!"" "" "A Counter-History of Crime Fiction" takes a new look at the evolution of crime fiction, drawing on material from the Middle Ages up to the early Twentieth century, when the genre was theoretically defined as detective fiction. Considering 'criminography' as a system of inter-related, even incestuous, sub-genres, Maurizio Ascari explores the connections between modes of literature such as revenge tragedies and providential fictions, the gothic and the ghost story, urban mysteries and anarchist fiction, while taking into account the influence of pseudo-sciences such as mesmerism and criminal anthropology.

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Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan
Country of origin: United Kingdom
Series: Crime Files
Release date: September 2007
First published: 2007
Authors: Maurizio Ascari
Dimensions: 216 x 140 x 18mm (L x W x T)
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 222
ISBN-13: 978-0-230-52500-9
Categories: Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > 16th to 18th centuries
Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > 19th century
Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Novels, other prose & writers > General
Books > Language & Literature > Literature: texts > Essays, journals, letters & other prose works > General
LSN: 0-230-52500-8
Barcode: 9780230525009

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