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Women writers and detectives in nineteenth-century crime fiction: the mothers of the mystery genre
eBook. English.
Published
Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, c2010
This book is a study of the 'mothers' of the mystery genre. Traditionally the invention of crime writing has been ascribed to Poe, Wilkie Collins and...
Sherlock Holmes in context
eBook. English.
Published
London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017
This book of interdisciplinary essays serves to situate the original Sherlock Holmes, and his various adaptations, in a contemporary cultural context....
The progress of romance: the politics of popular fiction
eBook. English.
Published
London: Routledge, 2016
First published in 1986, the aim of this book is to present some of the changing thinking on popular writing to a wider audience in view of the enormous...
Men of feeling in eighteenth-century literature: touching fiction
eBook. English.
Published
Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013
Analysing texts by Sterne, Smollett, Brooke, and Mackenzie, this book offers a new perspective on a question that literary criticism has struggled with...
Metafiction and metahistory in contemporary women's writing
eBook. English.
Published
Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007
Recently, historical fiction has been at the cutting edge of postmodern reconceptualizations of the past and of contemporary worlds. This collection of...
