| Edition |
First edition. |
| Description |
1 online resource |
| Series |
Oxford textual perspectives
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Oxford textual perspectives.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Cover; Series; Guilty But Insane; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; List of Figures; Epigraph; Introduction: Death by Adaptation: The Case for Reading Detective Fiction; Theories of Mind: An Introduction; 1 Psychological Detection; 2 Guilty but Insane; 3 Born Criminals; 4 'The Concealed Enemy of the Self': Deviance and Dissociation; 5 Irrational Detection; Dénouement; References; Index. |
| Summary |
Guilty But Insane takes an historical approach to golden age detective fiction by Margery Allingham, Christianna Brand, Agatha Christie, Dorothy L. Sayers, and Gladys Mitchell. It examines how writers and readers of detective fiction during the 1920s to 1940s understood guilt, responsibility, and the workings of the mind as they related to the commission, the investigation, and the punishment of crime. Under the lens of psychology, the detective novel isrevealed as a site for the negotiation of competing interpretations of sanity and insanity. An unexplored depth and subtlety is revealed in de. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Detective and mystery stories -- History and criticism.
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Mental illness in literature.
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Literary. |
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Detective and mystery stories |
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Mental illness in literature |
| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Added Author |
Christianson, Aileen, editor.
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Walker, Greg, editor.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Walton, Samantha. Guilty But Insane: Mind and Law in Golden Age Detective Fiction. Oxford : Oxford University Press, ©2015 9780198723325 |
| ISBN |
9780191034923 (electronic bk.) |
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0191034924 (electronic bk.) |
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0198723326 |
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9780198723325 |
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9780198723332 |
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0198723334 |
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1322871213 |
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9781322871219 |
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9780198723325 |
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