Mysteries and conspiracies
Subtitle: detective stories, spy novels and the making of modern societies
By: Luc Boltanski ; translated by Catherine Porter
Edition: English edition
Publisher: Polity; Wiley-Interscience
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 340
ISBN-13: 9780745664040; 9780745664057
Copyright date: 2014
Subjects: Detective and mystery stories; Conspiracies; Popular literature; Social aspects; History and criticism; Social surveys; Criminal investigation
Work titles: Énigmes et complots
Description: Through an exploration of the work of the great masters of detective stories and spy novels - G.K. Chesterton, Arthur Conan Doyle, John Le Carré and Graham Greene among others - Boltanski shows that these works of fiction and imagination tell us something fundamental about the nature of modern societies and the modern state.--Provided by publisher
Notes: First published in French by Éditions Gallimard, Paris in 2012.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 304-323) and index.