Detecting the Social: Order and Disorder in Post-1970s Detective Fiction

by Mary Evans, Sarah Moore, Hazel Johnstone

This book analyses the ways in which twenty-first century detective fiction provides an understanding of the increasingly complex and often baffling contemporary world - and what sociology, as a discipline, can learn from it.

Conventional sociological accounts of fiction generally comprehend its value in terms of the ways in which it can illustrate, enlarge or help to articulate a particular social theory. Evans, Moore, and Johnstone...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 331994519X
• ISBN13: 9783319945194
• Release Date: September 2018
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 196 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.8" x 8.3"