Politics and Society in Italian Crime Fiction
Subtitle: An Historical Overview
Publisher: McFarland & Company, Incorporated Publishers
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 244
ISBN-13: 9780786476527
Subjects: Italian fiction, history and criticism
Description: "This first English work comprehensively spans the history of Italian crime fiction genre from its origins to the most recent writers. The author examines ways in which Italian crime fiction has articulated the social and political changes of the country and ways in which individual authors exploit the genre to reflect the social transformations and dysfunctions of Italy"--