Unwilling executioner : crime fiction and the state /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Pepper, Andrew, 1969- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:Elamite
Published: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2016.
Edition:Firrst edition.
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • 1. 'A life of horrid and inimitable wickedness' : crime, law and punishment in early eighteenth-century London and Paris
  • 2. 'Let us attack injustice at its source' : crime literature in an era of revolution and reform
  • 3. 'A mysterious power whose hand is everywhere' : imagining the state and codifying the law in the mid-nineteenth century
  • 4. Crime, business, and liberty at the turn of the century : the individual, the state, and the emergence of modern capitalism
  • 5. 'No good business' : states of crime in the 1920s and 1930s
  • 6. 'On the barricades' : crime fiction and commitment in an era of radical politics
  • 7. From sovereignty to Neoliberalism : crime fiction in the contemporary world.