Guilty But Insane
Subtitle: Mind and Law in Golden Age Detective Fiction
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: Mar 29, 2015
Language: eng
Format: hardcover
Number of pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9780198723332
Description: Guilty But Insane takes an historical approach to golden age detective fiction by Margery Allingham, Christianna Brand, Agatha Christie, Dorothy L. Sayers, and Gladys Mitchell. It examines how writers and readers of detective fiction during the 1920s to 1940s understood guilt, responsibility, and the workings of the mind as they related to the commission, the investigation, and the punishment of crime. Under the lens of psychology, the detective novel is revealed as a site for the negotiation of competing interpretations of sanity and insanity.--Provided by publisher.
Notes: Source title: Guilty But Insane: Mind and Law in Golden Age Detective Fiction (Oxford Textual Perspectives)