| #3693589 in Books | 2001-04-26 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 9.21 x1.00 x6.14l,.0 | File type: PDF | 272 pages|||Gill Plain's discerning and scholarly overview of gender issues in 20th-century crime fiction concentrates largely on six authors - Agatha Christie, Raymond Chandler, Joseph Hansen, Dick Francis, Sara Paretsky and Katherine V Forrest. ! Plain's Freudian approa
Twentieth-Century Crime Fiction is an illuminating and challenging critical study of this ever popular genre.In the book Gill Plain uses contemporary theories of gender and sexuality to challenge the dominant perception of crime fiction as a conservative genre. The rise of lesbian detection and the impact of serial killing are considered alongside detailed analyses of works by popular writers such as Agatha Christie, Raymond Chandler, Dick Francis and Sara Paretsky.Begin...
You can specify the type of files you want, for your device.Twentieth-Century Crime Fiction: Gender, Sexuality and the Body | Gill Plain.Not only was the story interesting, engaging and relatable, it also teaches lessons.
