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12. The ghost in the machine
Nick Groom
in The Gothic: A Very Short Introduction
Ironically, despite its deep historic basis, the Gothic has always been a modern movement inspired by contemporary culture. Advances in science inspired Gothic writers such as Mary Shelley ...
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Crime Fiction: A Very Short Introduction
Richard Bradford
Crime Fiction: A Very Short Introduction explores the history of ‘crime fiction’ and the various definitions of the genre and considers how it has developed over time. ...
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1. Origins
Richard Bradford
in Crime Fiction: A Very Short Introduction
What are the true origins of modern crime fiction? ‘Origins’ explains that the sources can be found in 18th-century England with the fiction and criminal biographies of Daniel Defoe and ...
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5. Gender
Richard Bradford
in Crime Fiction: A Very Short Introduction
‘Gender’ considers the work of women crime writers and central female characters in the crime novel. In the relatively few novels featuring a woman detective produced between the period of ...
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4. International crime fiction
Richard Bradford
in Crime Fiction: A Very Short Introduction
‘International crime fiction’ looks at crime writing in France, Italy, Spain, Germany, Russia, East Asia, Latin America, and Scandinavia. Crime fiction in France was, and is, far more ...
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1. The world of eugenics
Philippa Levine
in Eugenics: A Very Short introduction
Early in the twentieth century, a powerful union of science and social policy emerged in countries across the world. Eugenics was a movement committed to using the principles of heredity ...
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9. The poetics of blood
Nick Groom
in The Gothic: A Very Short Introduction
Gothic novels inspired a new genre of writers known later as the Romantics who harked back to the romances of the Middle Ages. Writers such as Samuel Taylor Coleridge and John Keats and ...
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Bestsellers: A Very Short Introduction
John Sutherland
Bestsellers: A Very Short Introduction shows that bestseller lists monitor one of the strongest pulses in modern literature and are therefore worthy of serious study. It lifts ...
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2. The modern scene
John Sutherland
in Bestsellers: A Very Short Introduction
Why, when reading is so private an activity, should people want, so simultaneously, the one ‘book of the day’? ‘The modern scene’ evokes the history of bestsellerism in images such as ...
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6. Dickensian
Jenny Hartley
in Charles Dickens: A Very Short Introduction
Charles Dickens became an adjective in his own lifetime. By the 1850s, he was ‘Dickenesque’ and ‘Dickensy’; ‘Dickensian’ came in the decade after his death. Contradictions beset the many ...
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3. Madness confined
Andrew Scull
in Madness: A Very Short Introduction
‘Madness confined’ reviews the care of the mad from the 18th to the mid-20th century. Initially, treatment was based on a humoral approach, combined with the use of chains and other ...
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5. The British Bestseller
John Sutherland
in Bestsellers: A Very Short Introduction
‘The British bestseller’ highlights the influence of cultural and commercial differences between Britain and the USA. The bestseller ‘machine’ arrived with Walter Scott. The early twentieth ...
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