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Murder by the Book?|Professor Sally R. Munt

Murder by the Book? : Feminism and the Crime Novel

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Murder by the Book? is a thorough - and thoroughly enjoyable - look at the blossoming genre of the feminist crime novel in Britain and the United States.
Sally Munt asks why the form has proved so attractive as a vehicle for oppositional politics; whether the pleasures of detective fiction can be truly transgressive; and when exactly it was that the dyke detective appeared as the new super-hero for today.
Along the way Munt poses some critical questions about the relations between fiction and activism, politics and representations, the writer and the reader. This will be an enticing book both for addicts of the genre and for teachers and their students.

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  • ISBN-13: 9780415109192
  • ISBN-10: 0415109191
  • Publisher: Routledge
  • Publish Date: September 1994
  • Dimensions: 8.44 x 5.44 x 0.86 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 0.79 pounds
  • Page Count: 270

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