Unwilling executioner : crime fiction and the state /
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Format: | Book |
Language: | Elamite |
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Oxford :
Oxford University Press,
2016.
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Edition: | Firrst edition. |
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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.