Masquerade, crime and fiction [electronic resource] : criminal deceptions / Linden Peach.
Focusing upon the surprisingly neglected area of the criminal as a 'performer', Masquerade, Crime and Fiction offers an exciting, new framework within which to read literary and popular fiction about crime and criminality. Through stimulating discussions of a range of criminal types from t...
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Full Text (via Springer) |
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Basingstoke [England] ; New York :
Palgrave Macmillan,
2006.
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| Series: | Crime files series.
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| Summary: | Focusing upon the surprisingly neglected area of the criminal as a 'performer', Masquerade, Crime and Fiction offers an exciting, new framework within which to read literary and popular fiction about crime and criminality. Through stimulating discussions of a range of criminal types from the Regency 'swellman', the Victorian prostitute and the mid-twentieth-century gangster to the contemporary serial killer, Professor Peach offers new readings of established texts and argues persuasively for the importance of novels that have been previously neglected. In an accessible, lively text, he integrates incisive literary criticism with challenging, innovative arguments about gender, masquerade and culture. The book highlights the importance of masquerade and performance to criminology and revisits cultural assumptions about sexual identity, criminalisation and the body. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xviii, 184 pages) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 177-180) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780230625402 0230625401 1349282456 9781349282456 |
| Language: | English. |
| Source of Description, Etc. Note: | Print version record. |