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Product details
- ISBN 9780415109185
- Weight: 453g
- Dimensions: 138 x 216mm
- Publication Date: 08 Sep 1994
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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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.
Sally R.Munt is a Senior Lecturer in English and Cultural Studies at Nottingham Trent University. She is the editor of New Lesbian Criticism (Columbia/Harvester 1992) and the author of a number of articles in the areas of feminist theory, contemporary culture, and lesbian and gay studies.
