Murder by the Book?

Feminism and the Crime Novel

By: Sally Rowena Munt

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Hardcover | 8 September 1994 | Edition Number 1

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A thorough - and thoroughly enjoyable - look at the genre of the feminist crime novel in Britain and the United States. A pioneering work in the field and an indispensable guide for readers and scholars of the genre.Murder by the Book? is a thorough - and thoroughly enjoyable - look at the blossoming genre of the feminist crime novel in Britain and the United States.Sally Munt asks why the form has proved so attractive as a vehicle for oppositional politics; whether the pleasures of detective fiction can be truly transgressive; and when exactly it was that the dyke detective appeared as the new super-hero for today.Along the way Munt poses some critical questions about the relations between fiction and activism, politics and representations, the writer and the reader. This will be an enticing book both for addicts of the genre and for teachers and their students.

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Acknowledgements	p. viii
Masculinity and Masquerade or 'Is That a Gun in Your Pocket?'	p. 1
The New Woman-A Sheep in Wolves' Clothing?	p. 30
A Case of 'Death by Political Correction'?	p. 60
'A Change is Gonna Come'?	p. 84
The Inverstigators	p. 120
Murdering the Inner Man?	p. 147
'What Does It Mean to Sing "somewhere Over the Rainbow" and Release Balloons?'	p. 170
An Unsuitable Genre for a Woman?	p. 191
Notes	p. 208
Fictional Bibliography	p. 237
Critical Bibliography	p. 242
Index	p. 253
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