Adapting detective fiction : crime, Englishness and the TV detectives / Neil McCaw.

Adapting Detective Fiction is a study of specific instances of adaptation, with close readings of both the originating sources and adapted texts. But it is also more than this. It is a study of the politics of representation in the last decades of the twentieth century, and the role television detec...

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Main Author: McCaw, Neil, 1969-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: London ; New York : Continuum, ©2011.
Series:Continuum literary studies.
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505 0 |a Contents; Acknowledgements; Chapter 1: Introduction -- Adaptation and Cultural History; Chapter 2: Sherlock Holmes and the Authenticity of Crime; Chapter 3: Miss Marple, Criminality and Englishness; Chapter 4: Morse, Heritage and the End of History; Chapter 5: Jack Frost and the Condition of England Question; Chapter 6: Cadfael, Medievalism and Modern Nationhood; Chapter 7: DCI Barnaby and an English Aesthetics of Crime; Chapter 8: Conclusion -- Detecting the Nation; Notes; Bibliography; Index. 
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650 0 |a Detective and mystery television programs  |z Great Britain  |x History and criticism. 
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