Crime and the Nation explores the correlation between fiction writing and national identity in the late eighteenth century when these two enterprises went hand in hand. The 1780s and '90s witnessed a spirited public debate on crime and punishment that produced a new kind of fiction and a new kind of prison. The world's first penitentiary-style prison opened at Philadelphia in 1790. At the same time jurists, reformers and fiction writers found new uses for the criminal. Suddenly, he was fascinating, he was edifying to the community, he was worth displaying and reforming. In a young nation whose very origins were perceived as criminal, yet clearly necessary and ultimately redeemable, crime emerged as an essential-and controversial-component of national identity. Crime and the Nation explores the nature of that identity, and the origins of America's unique and enduring love affair with crime and crime fiction.
Автор: Shearer Название: Swift ISBN: 1622880900 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781622880904 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 16630.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: In a novel of dazzling suspense and excitement, Robert A. Shearer demonstrates the mastery of craft in this historical novel. Based on actual events that occurred after the bombing of Pearl Harbor and set in a small Texas town, Swift is a fictional account of lives altered in a time of war.
Автор: Margaret-Anne Hutton Название: French Crime Fiction, 1945–2005: Investigating World War II ISBN: 075466869X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780754668695 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 163330.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: In the first major study of representations of World War II in French crime fiction, Margaret-Anne Hutton draws on a corpus of over 150 texts spanning 60 years. Filling a gap in the fields of both crime fiction and fictional representations of the War, Hutton`s book calls into question the way both this popular genre and the French theatre of World War II have been conceptualised and codified.
Автор: Henry Winchester and G. D. Falksen Название: Steampunk: Fantasy Art, Fashion, Fiction & The Movies (Gothic Dreams) ISBN: 1783611227 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781783611225 Издательство: Flame Tree Рейтинг: Цена: 15930.00 T Наличие на складе: Невозможна поставка. Описание: Imagine a world where steam is the main source of power, but the attitudes are distinctly futuristic - the romance of the past meets the technology of the future. Steampunk is a subculture on the rise and this is the book to show the art, the movies and the fashion.
Автор: Jakob Stougaard-Nielsen Название: Scandinavian Crime Fiction ISBN: 1472527747 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781472527745 Издательство: Bloomsbury Academic Рейтинг: Цена: 28500.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: With its bleak urban environments, psychologically compelling heroes and socially engaged plots, Scandinavian crime writing has captured the imaginations of a global audience in the 21st century. Exploring the genre's key themes, international impact and socio-political contexts, Scandinavian Crime Fiction guides readers through such key texts as Sj wall and Wahl 's Novel of a Crime, Gunnar Staalesen's Varg Veum series, Peter H eg's Miss Smilla's Feeling for Snow, Henning Mankell's Wallander books, Stieg Larsson's Millennium trilogy and TV series such as The Killing. With its focus on the function of crime fiction in both reflecting and shaping the late-modern Scandinavian welfare societies, this book is essential for readers, viewers and fans of contemporary crime writing.
Автор: Jakob Stougaard-Nielsen Название: Scandinavian Crime Fiction ISBN: 1472522753 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781472522757 Издательство: Bloomsbury Academic Рейтинг: Цена: 100320.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: With its bleak urban environments, psychologically compelling heroes and socially engaged plots, Scandinavian crime writing has captured the imaginations of a global audience in the 21st century. Exploring the genre's key themes, international impact and socio-political contexts, Scandinavian Crime Fiction guides readers through such key texts as Sj wall and Wahl 's Novel of a Crime, Gunnar Staalesen's Varg Veum series, Peter H eg's Miss Smilla's Feeling for Snow, Henning Mankell's Wallander books, Stieg Larsson's Millennium trilogy and TV series such as The Killing. With its focus on the function of crime fiction in both reflecting and shaping the late-modern Scandinavian welfare societies, this book is essential for readers, viewers and fans of contemporary crime writing.
Автор: Jouineau, Andre Mongin, Jean-marie Название: French imperial guard 1800-1815, volume 2: cavalry ISBN: 284048496X ISBN-13(EAN): 9782840484967 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 27450.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: "The Guard Attacks!". The Imperial Guard, this glorious phalange, the fruit of the Emperor Napoleon's greatest attention, was almost an army within the "Grande Armee". This study of the Guard's organisation, uniforms and equipment is fully comprehensive.
Vol. I: Discover the uniforms, equipment and weaponry of the Old Guard, often the last resort to be thrown into battle at the decisive moment. The illustrator and researcher, Andre Jouineau presents here a fully comprehensive overview of all aspects, regiments, etc.
of the French Imperial Guard. Vol. II Continues where vol.
I ended with a wealth of images to conclude this fully comprehensive overview of the Imperial Guard.
Автор: Bran Nicol, Eugene McNulty, Patricia Pulham Название: Crime Culture: Figuring Criminality in Fiction and Film ISBN: 1441150161 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781441150165 Издательство: Bloomsbury Academic Рейтинг: Цена: 35890.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: A collection of original essays drawing on crime fiction and film to explore the implications of how we choose to represent crime to ourselves. By broadening the focus beyond classic English detective fiction, the American `hard-boiled` crime novel and the gangster movie, it breathes new life into staple themes of crime fiction and cinema.
Автор: Antony Taylor Название: London`s Burning: Pulp Fiction, the Politics of Terrorism and the Destruction of the Capital in British Popular Culture, 1840 - 2005 ISBN: 1472528948 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781472528940 Издательство: Bloomsbury Academic Рейтинг: Цена: 40120.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: From the early years of the nineteenth century, cultural pessimists imagined in fiction the political forces that might bring about the destruction of London. Periods of popular protest or radicalism have generated novels that consider the methods insurgents might use to terrorise the metropolis. There has been a tendency to dismiss such writings as the lurid imaginings of pulp novelists but this book re-evaluates the contribution of popular fiction to the construction of the terrorist threat. It analyses the high-points for the production of such works, and locates them in their cultural and historical context. From the 1840s, when a fear of Chartist insurgency was paramount in the minds of authors, it moves through the anarchist thrillers of the 1890s, considers writers' fears about Bolshevik revolution in the East End of the 1920s and 1930s, explores fears of Fascism in the inter-war years, and assesses the concerns with underground counter-culture that feature in the thriller literature of the 1970s. It concludes with a re-evaluation of the metropolitan background to the figure of the Islamist terrorist.
Автор: James Peacock Название: Brooklyn Fictions: The Contemporary Urban Community in a Global Age ISBN: 1350003735 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781350003736 Издательство: Bloomsbury Academic Рейтинг: Цена: 40120.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание:
Vast and diverse, Brooklyn is often portrayed in literature as a place of traditional community values and face-to-face relations, distinct from anonymous, capital-driven Manhattan. Brooklyn Fictions discovers what such representations of the New York borough can teach us about diversity and the individual, the local and the global.
Combining analysis of popular texts such as Sister Souljah's The Coldest Winter Ever with more canonical novels such as Jonathan Lethem's The Fortress of Solitude, this study draws on the work of a variety of theorists on community and globalization and uses Brooklyn as a case study for an exploration of the complex relationship between romantic ideals of community and global economic forces. With cites often depicted as sites of conflict and fear, this is a crucial contribution to our understanding of the contemporary urban community and the ethical issues involved in conceptualizing and portraying it in literature.
Автор: Montell William Lynwood Название: Tales from Kentucky Sheriffs ISBN: 0813168260 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780813168265 Издательство: Marston Book Services Рейтинг: Цена: 23760.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: Tales from Kentucky Sheriffs covers elections, criminal behavior, and sheriff`s mistakes in a lighthearted and often humorous manner.
Автор: Montell William Lynwood Название: Tales from Tennessee Lawyers ISBN: 0813168287 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780813168289 Издательство: Marston Book Services Рейтинг: Цена: 23760.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: Perhaps no one has keener insight into human nature than the small-town trial lawyer. All but lost in an era of corporate law firms and specialized practice, this charismatic figure was once at the political center of a community and was the holder of its many secrets. A small town attorney's only specialization was the town itself. Serving as both defender and accuser, these lawyers witnessed communities and individuals at their best and worst. Men and women of the legal profession often exert influence in seemingly small realms, but they play an important role in the lives of many people and help shape the American legal system. Veteran oral historian and folklorist William Lynwood Montell has brought together a fascinating collection of tales gathered from lawyers and judges throughout the Volunteer State. Montell searched small towns and cities across Tennessee for the law's older and middle age practitioners, and he shares the wealth of their experience in Tales from Tennessee Lawyers. These stories are recorded exactly as told by the lawyers themselves, and they reveal candid and unusual snapshots of the legal system - both past and present. With a tape recorder and an ear for detail, Montell uncovers events and lives ranging from the commonplace to the extraordinary. A man resorts to prostitution to alleviate the debt brought about by divorce proceedings. Identical twins are tried for a string of murders. A convict flees his trial by stealing the judge's car. A prosecutor tries the nation's first school-shooting case. Judge George Balitsaris, a former University of Tennessee football player, escorts a special prosecutor out of a notorious rape trial as a precaution after the defendant's family issues threats. These and similar stories illustrate the strange, complex cases argued daily from Tennessee's largest cities to its smallest towns. Far more than just a collection of lawyer jokes, these recollections shed light on the tense and often dangerous lives of those who work to see that all receive fair representation and treatment in court.
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