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Christianity and the Detective Story is the first book to gather together academic criticism on this particular connection between religion and popular culture. The articles cover the origin of this relationship in the works of G. K. Chesterton, examine its development through the ""Golden Age"" of mystery writers such as Dorothy L. Sayers, and include discussions of recent and contemporary television crime dramas. The volume makes a strong case for viewing mystery writing as a valid means of p...

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Detective and mystery stories [English ] --- History and criticism --- Women and literature --- Great Britain --- History --- 19th century --- 20th century --- English fiction --- Femmes détectives en littérature --- Detective and mystery stories, English --- History and criticism.

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From its very inception, detective fiction has enjoyed a great popularity among the young and the old, the learned and the not so learned. By some unfortunate stroke of irony, its respect has not kept pace with its enormous popularity. For over half a century now, it has remained the bane of creative writing. In strict intellectual circles, it is very rare to find people talk defensively and interestingly about the genre. Yet Asong has chosen to do just that. He has stoutly defended the weak by putting up a good case for its continued existence. He has also shown how irresistible key elements

African fiction --- Detective and mystery stories --- History and criticism. --- Detective and mystery stories, English --- English detective stories --- English mystery stories --- English fiction

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The Critical Heritage gathers together a large body of critical sources on major figures in literature. Each volume presents contemporary responses to a writer's work, enabling student and researcher to read the material themselves.

Detective and mystery stories, English --- Psychological fiction, English --- Sensationalism in literature. --- History and criticism. --- Collins, Wilkie, --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Collins, William Wilkie, --- Kollinz, Uilki, --- Collins, W., --- Коллинз, Уилки, --- קולינס, וילקי, --- 柯林斯威尔基, --- Collins, W. Wilkie, --- Collins, William Wilkie

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Adapting Detective Fiction is a study of specific instances of adaptation, with close readings of both the originating sources and adapted texts. But it is also more than this. It is a study of the politics of representation in the last decades of the twentieth century, and the role television detective fiction plays in this. It is about the mutually-informing interrelation of cultural texts and political rhetoric, about the connection between the popular-cultural depiction of crime and criminality and how we come to understand human behaviour and culpability; most of all, it is a detailed con

Detective and mystery stories, English --- Detective and mystery television programs --- National characteristics, English --- English detective stories --- English mystery stories --- English fiction --- English national characteristics --- Television crime shows --- History and criticism. --- History.