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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| Мова: | Англійська |
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2019.
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Зміст:
- 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.