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Detecting the Social

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Order and Disorder in Post-1970s Detective Fiction

ISBN: 331994519X
ISBN 13: 9783319945194
Autor: Evans, Mary/Moore, Sarah/Johnstone, Hazel
Verlag: Springer Verlag GmbH
Umfang: vii, 196 S.
Erscheinungsdatum: 26.09.2018
Auflage: 1/2019
Produktform: Kartoniert
Einband: Kartoniert

This book analyses the ways in which twenty-first century detective fiction provides an understanding of the increasingly complex and often baffling contemporary world – and what sociology, as a discipline, can learn from it. Conventional sociological accounts of fiction generally comprehend its value in terms of the ways in which it can illustrate, enlarge or help to articulate a particular social theory. Evans, Moore, and Johnstone suggest a different approach, and demonstrate that by taking a group of detective novels, we can unveil so far unidentified, but crucial, theoretical ideas about what it means to be an individual in the twenty-first century. More specifically, the authors argue that detective fiction of the last forty years illuminates the effects of urban isolation and separation, the invisibility of institutional power, financial insecurity, and the failure of public authorities to protect people. In doing so, this body of fiction traces out the fault-lines in our social arrangements, rehearses our collective fears, and captures a mood of restless disquiet. By engaging with detective stories in this way, the book revisits ideas about the promise and purpose of sociology.

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Beschreibung

- Multidisciplinary topic: academic and potentially some non-academic readers Avoids the pickandchoose sociological interpretations of literature, instead providing a fullyloaded, alternative intervention in the field, and a new pedagogical model Written by internationally renowned scholars 

Autorenporträt

Mary Evans is Leverhulme Emeritus Professor, Department of Gender Studies, London School of Economics, UK.  Sarah Moore is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Social & Policy Sciences, University of Bath, UK.  Hazel Johnstone is Departmental Manager, Department of Gender Studies, London School of Economics, and Managing Editor, European Journal of Women's Studies, UK.

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