Violent minds : modernism and the criminal /

Just as cultural attitudes toward criminality were undergoing profound shifts in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, modernist authors became fascinated by crime and its perpetrators, as well as the burgeoning genre of crime fiction. Throughout the period, a diverse range of British a...

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التفاصيل البيبلوغرافية
المؤلف الرئيسي: Levay, Matthew (مؤلف)
التنسيق: Licensed eBooks
اللغة:الإنجليزية
منشور في: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2019.
الوصول للمادة أونلاين:https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=2026069
جدول المحتويات:
  • Introduction: modernism's violent minds
  • 1. Modernist detection: minds, mindlessness, and the logic of criminal pursuit
  • 2. Criminal types: anarchism, terrorism, and the violence of chance
  • 3. The modernist crime novel: popular literature and the forms of experiment
  • 4. Cases of identity: late modernism and the life of crime
  • Conclusion: the criminal after modernism.