ISBN: 9780812247794 - legacies of the rue morgue: science, space, and crime fiction in france (critical authors & issues) (1 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. The book itself is in good condition, with clean and bright pages throughout. The dust jacket has faded in certain areas, leaving a different colour on the spine compared to the main cover, but no text is obscured. Light pencil markings throughout, but all text remains clear. Taking Edgar Allan Poe's 1841 'The Murders in the Rue Morgue' as an inaugural frame, Andrea Goulet traces shifting representations of violence, space, and nation in French crime fiction from serial novels of the 1860s to cyberpunk fictions today. She argues that the history of spatial sciences-geology, paleontology, cartography-helps elucidate the genre's fundamental tensions: between brutal murder and pure reason; hist.…