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Guilty but Insane : Mind and Law in Golden Age Detective Fiction.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Oxford Textual Perspectives SeriesPublisher: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2015Copyright date: ©2015Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (321 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780191034923
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Guilty but InsaneDDC classification:
  • 823.0872090912
LOC classification:
  • PN3448.D4.W358 2015
Online resources:
Contents:
Cover -- Series -- Guilty But Insane -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Epigraph -- Introduction: Death by Adaptation: The Case for Reading Detective Fiction -- Theories of Mind: An Introduction -- 1 Psychological Detection -- 2 Guilty but Insane -- 3 Born Criminals -- 4 'The Concealed Enemy of the Self': Deviance and Dissociation -- 5 Irrational Detection -- Dénouement -- References -- Index.
Summary: 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.
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Cover -- Series -- Guilty But Insane -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Epigraph -- Introduction: Death by Adaptation: The Case for Reading Detective Fiction -- Theories of Mind: An Introduction -- 1 Psychological Detection -- 2 Guilty but Insane -- 3 Born Criminals -- 4 'The Concealed Enemy of the Self': Deviance and Dissociation -- 5 Irrational Detection -- Dénouement -- References -- Index.

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.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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