Unwilling Executioner: Crime Fiction and the State

by Andrew Pepper

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What gives crime fiction its distinctive shape and form? What makes it such a compelling vehicle of social and political critique? Unwilling Executioner argues that the answer lies in the emerging genre's complex and intimate relationship with the bureaucratic state and modern capitalism, and the contradictions that ensue once the state assumes control of the criminal justice system. This study offers a dramatic new interpretation of the genre's emergence...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0198831129

ISBN13:9780198831129

Release Date:October 2019

Publisher:Oxford Univ PR

Length:288 Pages

Weight:1.00 lbs.

Dimensions:0.6" x 6.1" x 9.1"

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