Violent minds : modernism and the criminal / Matthew Levay.
Violent minds : modernism and the criminal / Matthew Levay.
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Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2019.
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G 2019/1326
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English
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ix, 239 pages ; 24 cm
Content type
text
Media type
unmediated
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volume
Contents
Introduction; 1. Modernist detection: minds, mindlessness, and the logic of criminal pursuit; 2. Criminal types: anarchism, terrorism, and the violence of chance; 3. The modernist crime novel: popular literature and the forms of experiment; 4. Cases of identity: late modernism and the life of crime;...
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Publisher
Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2019.
Place of Publication
New York (State)
Date Published
2019.
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"Just as cultural attitudes toward criminality were undergoing profound shifts in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, modernist authors became fascinated by crime and its perpetrators, as well as the burgeoning genre of crime fiction. Throughout the period, a diverse range of British and American novelists took the criminal as a case...
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Violent minds : modernism and the criminal / Matthew Levay.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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G 2019/1326
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74VKVyyGWPJX
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VKVyyGWPJX
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110842886X hardcover
9781108428866 hardcover
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823.8093556
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991024235805702626
