Andrew Pepper

Broschiertes Buch

Unwilling Executioner

Crime Fiction and the State

Beschreibung

Unwilling Executioner is the first book to examine the deep-rooted relationship between the development of crime fiction as a genre and the consolidation of the modern state.

Autor

Andrew Pepper is Senior Lecturer in English and American literature at Queen's University Belfast. He has written extensively about crime fiction over a twenty year period and is the author of The Contemporary American Crime Novel: Race, Ethnicity, Gender, Class (Edinburgh University Press, 2000) and co-editor, with David Schmid, of Globalization and the State in Contemporary Crime Fiction (Palgrave, 2016). He is also the author of five detective novels set in nineteenth-century Britain and Ireland, all published by Weidenfeld & Nicolson, including The Last Days of Newgate (2006), The Detective Branch (2010) and Bloody Winter (2011).

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. Oktober 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 155mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 454g
• ISBN-13: 9780198831129
• ISBN-10: 0198831129
• Artikelnr.: 53774126