Kategoria BISAC: Literary Criticism >> European - General

Irish detective fiction has enjoyed an international readership for over a decade, appearing on best-seller lists across the globe. But its breadth of hard-boiled and amateur detectives, historical fiction, and police procedurals has remained somewhat marginalized in academic scholarship. Exploring the work of some of its leading writers including Peter Tremayne, John Connolly, Declan Hughes, Ken Bruen, Brian McGilloway, Stuart Neville, Tana French, Jane Casey, and Benjamin Black The Contemporary Irish Detective Novel opens new ground in Irish literary criticism and genre studies....

In Adulterous Nations, Tatiana Kuzmic enlarges our perspective on the nineteenth-century novel of adultery, showing how it often served as a metaphor for relationships between the imperialistic and the colonized. In the context of the long-standing practice of gendering nations as female, the novels under discussion here George Eliot s Middlemarch, Theodor Fontane s Effi Briest, and Leo Tolstoy s Anna Karenina, along with August enoa s The Goldsmith s Gold and Henryk Sienkiewicz s Quo Vadis can be understood as depicting international crises on the...

In Adulterous Nations, Tatiana Kuzmic enlarges our perspective on the nineteenth-century novel of adultery, showing how it often served as a metaphor for relationships between the imperialistic and the colonized. In the context of the long-standing practice of gendering nations as female, the novels under discussion here George Eliot s Middlemarch, Theodor Fontane s Effi Briest, and Leo Tolstoy s Anna Karenina, along with August enoa s The Goldsmith s Gold and Henryk Sienkiewicz s Quo Vadis can be understood as depicting international crises on the...

This book provides an original and compelling analysis of the ways in which British women s golden age crime narratives negotiate the conflicting social and cultural forces that influenced depictions of gender in popular culture in the 1920s until the late 1940s. The book explores a wide variety of texts produced both by writers who have been the focus of a relatively large amount of critical attention, such as Agatha Christie, Dorothy L. Sayers and Margery Allingham, but also those who have received comparatively little, such as Christianna Brand, Ngaio Marsh, Gladys Mitchell,...