Overview
- Interrogates the prevalence of sexualised female cadavers in Hispanic and Anglophone crime fiction, television, and other mass media
- Spans a 180-year corpus exemplifying various sub-genres of crime fiction, such as Edgar Allan Poe’s classical ratiocinative mode and Ed McBain’s police procedural
- Examines in detail the artistic projection of a timely and highly pressing social concern
Part of the book series: Crime Files (CF)
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Book Title: Female Corpses in Crime Fiction
Book Subtitle: A Transatlantic Perspective
Authors: Glen S. Close
Series Title: Crime Files
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-99013-2
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-99012-5Published: 20 October 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-07556-9Published: 03 January 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-99013-2Published: 10 October 2018
Series ISSN: 2947-8340
Series E-ISSN: 2947-8359
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 261
Number of Illustrations: 19 b/w illustrations
Topics: Fiction, Latin American/Caribbean Literature, Literature and Technology/Media, Contemporary Literature, Comparative Literature, Media and Communication