1st Edition
French Crime Fiction, 1945–2005 Investigating World War II
By Margaret-Anne Hutton
Copyright 2013
232 Pages
by
Routledge
232 Pages
by
Routledge
232 Pages
by
Routledge
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In the first major study of representations of World War II in French crime fiction, Margaret-Anne Hutton draws on a corpus of over a hundred and fifty texts spanning more than sixty years. Included are well-known writers (male and female) such as Aubert, Simenon, Boileau-Narcejak, Vargas, Daeninckx, and Jonquet, as well as a broad range of lesser-known authors. Hutton's introduction situates her... Read more
Introduction; Chapter 1 Reopening the Case of Georges Simenon; Chapter 2 From Hybrid Whodunnit to Cyber-Sleuthing; Chapter 3 Crimes, Criminals, and the Forces of Law and Order; Chapter 4 Investigative Avatars; Chapter 5 Criminal Continuities;
Biography
Margaret-Anne Hutton is Professor of French and Head of the School of Modern Languages at the University of St Andrews, UK.
’Impressive in its span, this lively, authoritative and interesting analysis of crime fiction devoted to the Second World War and Occupation in French is a valuable addition to the critical literature.’ Margaret Atack, University of Leeds, UK ’This is a nuanced and valuable text advocating a much-needed epistemological vigilance in relation to the constitution of crime fiction as a category, and the diachronically and synchronically shifting resonances of the Occupation in literature.’ French Studies ’Given the extent of the corpus it is not surprising that Hutton’s findings result in a rich and thought-provoking discussion not just of the post-war era but of the nature of crime fiction itself.’ New Zealand Journal of French Studies 'The book is impressive in the range of texts considered, is engagingly written and offers an important contribution to the study of recent French crime fiction.' Forum for Modern Language Studies
