Télécharger le livre :  Stolen Goods in British Detective Fiction
This book pushes beyond the focus of murder mysteries in British detective fiction to illuminate elements of what is perhaps the next most pertinent subgenre: stories of burglary and theft. Chapters cover work including E. W. Hornung's Raffles stories, Sherlock Holmes's...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2025-11-17
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Télécharger le livre :  Bess of Hardwick, Mary Queen of Scots, and the Cavendishes
This book examines the cultural legacies of the fifteen years that Mary Queen of Scots spent as a prisoner in the household of Bess of Hardwick and her fourth husband, the Earl of Shrewsbury. It proposes four main areas of influence: first, that although Mary never...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2025-05-29
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Télécharger le livre :  Ocular Proof and the Spectacled Detective in British Crime Fiction
From Sherlock Holmes onwards, fictional detectives use lenses: Ocular Proof and the Spectacled Detective in British Crime Fiction argues that these visual aids are metaphors for ways of seeing, and that they help us to understand not only individual detectives’ methods...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2023-05-31
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Télécharger le livre :  Burial Plots in British Detective Fiction
Burial Plots in British Detective Fiction offers an overview of the ways in which the past is brought back to the surface and influences the present in British detective fiction written between 1920 and 2020. Exploring a range of authors including Agatha Christie,...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2021-01-24
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Télécharger le livre :  After Austen
This collection of twelve new essays examines some of what Jane Austen has become in the two hundred years since her death.  Some of the chapters explore adaptations or repurposings of her work while others trace her influence on a surprising variety of different...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2018-11-11
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Télécharger le livre :  Shakespearean Allusion in Crime Fiction
This book explores why crime fiction so often alludes to Shakespeare. It ranges widely over a variety of authors including classic golden age crime writers such as the four ‘queens of crime’ (Allingham, Christie, Marsh, Sayers), Nicholas Blake and Edmund Crispin, as...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2016-04-21
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