Burial plots in British detective fiction / Lisa Hopkins.
2021
PR830.D4 H67 2021
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Title
Burial plots in British detective fiction / Lisa Hopkins.
Author
Hopkins, Lisa, 1962- author.
ISBN
9783030657604 (electronic bk.)
3030657604 (electronic book)
3030657590
9783030657598
3030657604 (electronic book)
3030657590
9783030657598
Published
Cham, Switzerland : Palgrame Macmillan, [2021]
Language
English
Description
1 online resource
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10.1007/978-3-030-65760-4 doi
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PR830.D4 H67 2021
Dewey Decimal Classification
823/.087209
Summary
Burial Plots in British Detective Fiction offers an overview of the ways in which the past is brought back to the surface and influences the present in British detective fiction written between 1920 and 2020. Exploring a range of authors including Agatha Christie, Patricia Wentworth, Val McDermid, Sarah Caudwell, Georgette Heyer, Dorothy Dunnett, Jonathan Stroud and Ben Aaronovitch, Lisa Hopkins argues that both the literal and literary disinterment of the past use elements of the national past to interrogate the present. As such, in the texts discussed, uncovering the truth about an individual crime is also typically an uncovering of a more general connection between the present and the past. Whether detective novels explore murders on archaeological digs, hauntings, cold crimes or killings at Christmas, Hopkins explores the underlying message that you cannot understand the present unless you understand the past.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on February 03, 2021).
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Crime files series.
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Table of Contents
Chapter 1: Introduction
Chapter 2: The Deep Dead: Detective Fiction and Archaeology
Chapter 3: The tongue is a fire: Patricia Wentworth's Miss Silver Novels
Chapter 4: The Body in the Library: Georgette Heyer, Dorothy Dunnett, Sarah Caudwell
Chapter 5: Cover Her Face: Elizabethan and Jacobean Drama
Chapter 6: Historic Scotland: Val McDermid's Cold Cases
Chapter 7: Crime at Christmas
Chapter 8: Detecting the Dead
Chapter 9: Conclusion.
Chapter 2: The Deep Dead: Detective Fiction and Archaeology
Chapter 3: The tongue is a fire: Patricia Wentworth's Miss Silver Novels
Chapter 4: The Body in the Library: Georgette Heyer, Dorothy Dunnett, Sarah Caudwell
Chapter 5: Cover Her Face: Elizabethan and Jacobean Drama
Chapter 6: Historic Scotland: Val McDermid's Cold Cases
Chapter 7: Crime at Christmas
Chapter 8: Detecting the Dead
Chapter 9: Conclusion.