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Guilty But Insane: Mind and Law in Golden Age Detective Fiction (Oxford Textual Perspectives)
Samantha Walton
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Description for Guilty But Insane: Mind and Law in Golden Age Detective Fiction (Oxford Textual Perspectives)
Paperback. Guilty But Insane offers a timely and challenging discussion of the relationship between popular literature, science, and what it means to be human by examining how writers of detective fiction during the 1920s to 1940s understood guilt, responsibility, and the workings of the mind in relation to crime. Series: Oxford Textual Perspectives. Num Pages: 320 pages, 10 black-and-white halftones. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 206 x 136 x 23. Weight in Grams: 364.
Guilty But Insane takes an historical approach to golden age detective fiction by Margery Allingham, Christianna Brand, Agatha Christie, Dorothy L. Sayers, and Gladys Mitchell. It examines how writers and readers of detective fiction during the 1920s to 1940s understood guilt, responsibility, and the workings of the mind as they related to the commission, the investigation, and the punishment of crime. Under the lens of psychology, the detective novel is revealed as a site for the negotiation of competing interpretations of sanity and insanity. An unexplored depth and subtlety is revealed in detective novels that address major controversies in legal ... Read more
Guilty But Insane takes an historical approach to golden age detective fiction by Margery Allingham, Christianna Brand, Agatha Christie, Dorothy L. Sayers, and Gladys Mitchell. It examines how writers and readers of detective fiction during the 1920s to 1940s understood guilt, responsibility, and the workings of the mind as they related to the commission, the investigation, and the punishment of crime. Under the lens of psychology, the detective novel is revealed as a site for the negotiation of competing interpretations of sanity and insanity. An unexplored depth and subtlety is revealed in detective novels that address major controversies in legal ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Series
Oxford Textual Perspectives
Condition
New
Number of Pages
306
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780198723325
SKU
V9780198723325
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About Samantha Walton
Samantha Walton is a Lecturer in English Literature at Bath Spa University. Previously, she taught at the University of Edinburgh, where she also completed her doctorate. In 2013 she was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Institute of Advanced Studies in the Humanities at the University of Edinburgh, and a Bright Ideas Fellow at the ESRC Genomics Policy and Research ... Read more
Reviews for Guilty But Insane: Mind and Law in Golden Age Detective Fiction (Oxford Textual Perspectives)
Samantha Walton's Guilty But Insane offers a fascinating reworking of the ['golden age'] era, utilising the lens of psychology to investigate issues of punishment and legality.
Fiona Peters, Times Higher Education Books of 2015
the attention she [Walton] brings to lesser-known writers such as the "unjustly neglected" Gladys Mitchell, enables a richer and more accurate understanding of a ... Read more
Fiona Peters, Times Higher Education Books of 2015
the attention she [Walton] brings to lesser-known writers such as the "unjustly neglected" Gladys Mitchell, enables a richer and more accurate understanding of a ... Read more