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Crime Writing in Interwar Britain: Fact and Fiction in the Golden Age
Victoria Stewart
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Description for Crime Writing in Interwar Britain: Fact and Fiction in the Golden Age
hardcover. Considering a range of neglected material, this book provides a richer view of how crime and criminality were understood between the wars. BIC Classification: DSBH. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 228 x 152. .
The interwar period is often described as the 'Golden Age' of detective fiction, but many other kinds of crime writing, both factual and fictional, were also widely read during these years. Crime Writing in Interwar Britain: Fact and Fiction in the Golden Age considers some of this neglected material in order to provide a richer and more complex view of how crime and criminality were understood between the wars. A number of the authors discussed, including Dorothy L. Sayers, Marie Belloc Lowndes and F. Tennyson Jesse, wrote about crime in essays, book reviews, newspaper articles and works of popular criminology, ... Read more
The interwar period is often described as the 'Golden Age' of detective fiction, but many other kinds of crime writing, both factual and fictional, were also widely read during these years. Crime Writing in Interwar Britain: Fact and Fiction in the Golden Age considers some of this neglected material in order to provide a richer and more complex view of how crime and criminality were understood between the wars. A number of the authors discussed, including Dorothy L. Sayers, Marie Belloc Lowndes and F. Tennyson Jesse, wrote about crime in essays, book reviews, newspaper articles and works of popular criminology, ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
Weight
28g
Number of Pages
214
Place of Publication
Cambridge, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781316510001
SKU
V9781316510001
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Ref
99-22
About Victoria Stewart
Victoria Stewart is Reader in Modern and Contemporary Literature at the University of Leicester. She has published widely on topics including war writing, the middlebrow, life-writing and detective fiction. She is the author of Women's Autobiography: War and Trauma (2003), Narratives of Memory: British Writing of the 1940s (2006) and The Second World War in Contemporary Fiction: Secret Histories (2011). ... Read more
Reviews for Crime Writing in Interwar Britain: Fact and Fiction in the Golden Age
'In this slim but thought provoking title, Victoria Stuart (sic) sets out to examine the relationship between real life crimes and interwar detective fiction ... It is easy to tells that Stuart (sic) has put a lot of time and effort into researching her subject, as the additional footnotes have a wealth of interesting and important information, meaning that you ... Read more