A guilty satisfaction : detective fiction and the reader
The purpose of this thesis is to explore the reasons why readers choose to read detective fiction. Taking Thomas De Quincey's satirical identification of the aesthetic quality of murder, I look at Edgar Allan Poe's detective fiction to find a non-satiric version of the same argument that e...
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University of Sussex
2012
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| Online Access: | https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.558156 |