Murder by the Book?: Feminism and the Crime Novel

by Sally R. Munt

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415109183
• ISBN13: 9780415109185
• Release Date: September 1994
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 270 Pages
• Weight: 1.09 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.5" x 8.5"