Crime fiction in the city : capital crimes / edited by Lucy Andrew and Catherine Phelps.

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TextSeries: European crime fictionsPublication details: Cardiff : University of Wales Press, 2013.Description: 1 online resource (xi, 149 pages)Content type:

text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

9780708325872
0708325874
9781783160372
1783160373

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Crime fiction in the city.DDC classification:

809.933556

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PR1309.D4 C75 2013eb

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Contents:

Acknowledgements; Notes on Contributors; Introduction; Edinburgh; 'The map that engenders the territory'? Rethinking Ian Rankin's Edinburgh; Corralling Crime in Cardiff's Tiger Bay; Crimes and Contradictions: the Fictional City of Dublin; From National Authority to Urban Underbelly: Negotiations of Power in Stockholm Crime Fiction; Streets and Squares, Quartiers and Arrondissements: Paris Crime Scenesand the Poetics of Contestation in the Novels of Jean-François Vilar; The Mysteries of the Vatican: from Nineteenth-century Anti-clerical Propaganda to Dan Brown's Religious Thrillers.

A Tale of Three Cities: Megalopolitan Mysteries of the 1840sConclusion; Index.

Summary: A collection of academic essays by literary critics and writers of crime fiction - including a reflective essay by Ian Rankin on his own work - that explores the relationship between crime fiction and the urban spaces of the capital city.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

A collection of academic essays by literary critics and writers of crime fiction - including a reflective essay by Ian Rankin on his own work - that explores the relationship between crime fiction and the urban spaces of the capital city.