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Murder by the Book?: Feminism and the Crime Novel Contributor(s): Munt, Sally R., Professor (Author)
	ISBN: 0415109183 ISBN-13: 9780415109185 Publisher: Routledge OUR PRICE: $152.00 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: September 1994 Qty:

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BISAC Categories:
- Social Science | Feminism & Feminist Theory
- Literary Criticism
- Reference

Dewey: 823.087

LCCN: 93049588

Series: Material Cultures

Physical Information: 0.75" H x 5.5" W x 8.5" (1.09 lbs) 270 pages

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Publisher Description:

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 questions about the relations between fiction and activism, politics and representations, the writer and the reader. This will be an enticing book both for addicts of the genre and for teachers and their students.

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