Justice and Revenge in Contemporary American Crime Fiction
Stuart Sim
Palgrave Macmillan, 2015
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The detective figure in contemporary American crime fiction increasingly relies on revenge to bring about justice in a society where there has been a sharp decline in moral values. This study demonstrates how the notion of the detective as a moral exemplar or heroic ideal breaks down in the works of writers such as James Ellroy and Sara Paretsky.
- ISBN-13
- 9781137469656
- ISBN-10
- 113746965X
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Year
- 2015
- Publication date
- 2015-04-08
- Pages
- 133
- Dimensions
- 216x140x