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Masquerade, Crime and Fiction

Part of the Crime Files Series Book Series

DOI: 10.1057/9780230625402

ISBN: 978-1-349-28245-6

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK - Springer Journals

Sep 29, 2015

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Chapter 1Mocking Modernity

Peach, Linden

Pages: 1 –24

[Writing about criminality, whether in literature or in criminology, is usually concerned with ‘groups’ and with ‘grouping’ individuals together by virtue of their criminality as, for example, serial killers, rapists, vandals, thieves or pickpockets. This has implications for the way in which we...
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Chapter 2Gender and Performance in the Criminal Masquerade

Peach, Linden

Pages: 25 –55

[There are many aspects of criminality dependent upon ‘performance’ and ‘theatre’ that are related to traditional notions of gender identity. Some of these are explored in this chapter through examples taken from the nineteenth- and twentieth centuries: the Victorian swellman, the Victorian...
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Chapter 3The Cadaver as Criminalised Text

Peach, Linden

Pages: 56 –80

[In its emphasis upon logic and deduction, the collection and processing of information and the importance of proceeding in a planned and methodical manner, criminal investigation is the correlative of modernity, in many respects legitimating the basic principles upon which modernity is based....
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Chapter 4Where Does That Criminality Come From? Writing Women and Crime

Peach, Linden

Pages: 81 –103

[Interest in female criminality seems to be most pronounced at times of significant change in the cultural representation and the status of women. There is much evidence of this in the nineteenth century, a period of significant transformation in women’s fortunes but one in which crime involving...
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Chapter 5Agatha Christie, Dorothy L. Sayers and Sara Paretsky: The New Woman

Peach, Linden

Pages: 104 –128

[Ostensibly, it may appear curious to place Agatha Christie and Dorothy L. Sayers alongside the hard-boiled American, feminist detective writer Sara Paretsky. But, like Christie and Sayers, Paretsky is concerned to challenge, albeit in a different context, the social and cultural configuration of...
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Chapter 6Masquerade, Criminality and Desire in Toni Morrison’s Love

Peach, Linden

Pages: 129 –149

[Love (2003) is the eighth novel by the Nobel prize-winning, African-American writer Toni Morrison. Her fiction draws on African-American, American, African and European literary traditions. Like Sara Paretsky, she is indebted to Virginia Woolf, only more so. She completed a Masters thesis on...
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Chapter 7Writing the Serial and Callous Killer into (Post) Modernity

Peach, Linden

Pages: 150 –172

[Serial criminality is an appropriate subject for the final chapter of this book. If there are parallels to be drawn between the critic and the detective, there are others that link the writer and the serial criminal. Both are often the subjects of an obsession that totally dominates and...
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Chapter 8Conclusion

Peach, Linden

Pages: 173 –176

[Beginnings often masquerade as endings. When the Ripper murders ended in London in 1888 they did not stop there. The unknown killer, perhaps because he was never uncovered, influenced artists such as Otto Dix and Walter Sickert, inspired film directors, and attracted the attention of a host of...

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