Crime fiction

This dissertation analyzes contemporary Italian crime fiction’s success, relating it to the penal system’s growing centrality in the Italian (and global) political, social, and cultural scene. Although crime literature’s great popularity is commonly accepted as a fact, literary …

There has been much debate over the nature of relations between thedifferent ethnic and racial groups in the United States. Some argue that theUnited States is a genuinely multi-cultural nation where the opportunity foruniversal socio-political and economic advancement still exi…

This thesis examines the representation of masculinity in the work of three contemporary male crime writers – George Pelecanos, Henning Mankell and Ian Rankin. It considers whether or not the feminist movement, and the resultant deconstruction of gendered identity, has had an im…

From the mid-nineteenth century, Britain experienced a ‘detective craze’ in popular culture. The girl detective emerged comparatively late in the first decade of the twentieth century. Despite the prominence and permeation of the girl detective in British experiences of girlhood…