Samantha Walton

Broschiertes Buch

Guilty But Insane

Mind and Law in Golden Age Detective Fiction

Beschreibung

Guilty But Insane offers a timely and challenging discussion of the relationship between popular literature, science, and what it means to be human by examining how writers of detective fiction during the 1920s to 1940s understood guilt, responsibility, and the workings of the mind in relation to crime.

Autor

Samantha Walton is a Lecturer in English Literature at Bath Spa University. Previously, she taught at the University of Edinburgh, where she also completed her doctorate. In 2013 she was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Institute of Advanced Studies in the Humanities at the University of Edinburgh, and a Bright Ideas Fellow at the ESRC Genomics Policy and Research Forum.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 306
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. März 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 201mm x 135mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 363g
• ISBN-13: 9780198723325
• ISBN-10: 0198723326
• Artikelnr.: 42382657