Unwilling Executioner: Crime Fiction and the State

ISBN-13: 9780198831129 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 288 str.

Andrew Pepper

Recenzje

Pepper offers nothing less than a long history of the crime novel as world literature, its roots in England but its branches universal.

O autorze

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).