Masquerade, Crime and Fiction: Criminal Deceptions

by Linden Peach

Book Overview

This ground-breaking study argues that literature and criminology share a common concern to understand modernity and that this project is often focused upon gender-specific criminality. Central to this concern is duplicity masquerade and performance. These subjects are explored for the first time in relation to criminality with reference to a range of literary and popular texts, from Dickens and Poe through to Toni Morrison and Easton Ellis, in which...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0230006582
• ISBN13: 9780230006584
• Release Date: September 2006
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 184 Pages
• Weight: 0.81 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.8" x 8.8"