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.
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.
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).
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* Preface * Introduction: Crime Fiction as Unwilling Executioner * 1: 'A life of horrid and inimitable wickedness': Crime, Law and Punishment in Early Eighteenth-Century London and Paris * 2: 'Let us attack injustice at its source': Crime Literature in an Era of Revolution and Reform * 3: 'A mysterious power whose hand is everywhere': Imagining the State and Codifying the Law in the Mid-Nineteenth Century * 4: Crime, Business, and Liberty at the Turn of the Century: the Individual, the State and the Emergence of Modern Capitalism * 5: 'No Good for Business': States of Crime in the 1920s and 1930s * 6: 'On the Barricades': Crime Fiction and Commitment in an Era of Radical Politics * 7: 1. From Sovereignty to Neoliberalism: Crime Fiction in the Contemporary World * Conclusion * Select Bibliography
* Preface * Introduction: Crime Fiction as Unwilling Executioner * 1: 'A life of horrid and inimitable wickedness': Crime, Law and Punishment in Early Eighteenth-Century London and Paris * 2: 'Let us attack injustice at its source': Crime Literature in an Era of Revolution and Reform * 3: 'A mysterious power whose hand is everywhere': Imagining the State and Codifying the Law in the Mid-Nineteenth Century * 4: Crime, Business, and Liberty at the Turn of the Century: the Individual, the State and the Emergence of Modern Capitalism * 5: 'No Good for Business': States of Crime in the 1920s and 1930s * 6: 'On the Barricades': Crime Fiction and Commitment in an Era of Radical Politics * 7: 1. From Sovereignty to Neoliberalism: Crime Fiction in the Contemporary World * Conclusion * Select Bibliography
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