Detection and the modern city

This dissertation examines detective fiction as a form which has evolved in close relation to the modern city from the nineteenth century to the present. The argument runs that the link between the urban setting and the detective story is an essential characteristic of the form which has been underv...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Rossouw, Jean-Pierre
Other Authors: Marx, Lesley
Format: Dissertation
Language:English
Published: University of Cape Town 2016
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/11427/18264