Burial plots in British detective fiction 1st ed.

Author

• Hopkins, Lisa

Additional Author(s)

-

Publisher

Cham, Switzerland : Springer International Publishing, 2021

Language

English

ISBN

9783030657604

Series

Crime files

Subject(s)

• DETECTIVE AND MYSTERY STORIES, ENGLISH
• ENGLISH FICTION
• MURDER IN LITERATURE

Notes

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Abstract

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.

Physical Dimension

Number of Page(s)

1 online resource (vii, 201 p.)

Dimension

-

Other Desc.

ill.

Summary / Review / Table of Content

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.

Exemplar(s)

#	Accession No.	Call Number	Location	Status
1.	00761/21	823.087209 Hop B	Online !	Available