Marty Roth

Gebundenes Buch

Foul and Fair Play

Reading Genre in Classic Detective Fiction

Beschreibung

An examination of classic detective fiction as a genre. The book attempts to read a variety of texts by different authors as variations on a common and relatively tight set of conventions, ranging from Edgar Allan Poe and Wilkie Collins, through Robert Louis Stevenson and H.G. Wells, to the 1960s.

Autor

MARTY ROTH is a professor of English at the University of Minnesota. He is the author of Comedy and America: The Lost World of Washington Irving and the editor of Washington Irving's Contributions to "The Corrector."

Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Georgia Press
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Januar 1995
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 161mm x 31mm
• Gewicht: 708g
• ISBN-13: 9780820316222
• ISBN-10: 0820316229
• Artikelnr.: 21165659