Adapting Detective Fiction: Crime, Englishness and the TV Detectives

by Neil McCaw

Overview

An examination of how crime and criminality representations within adapted UK detective dramas impact contemporary definitions of ‘Englishness.’

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781847063076
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	01/20/2011
Series:	Continuum Literary Studies
Pages:	208
Product dimensions:	6.30(w) x 9.30(h) x 0.90(d)

About the Author

Neil McCaw is Senior Lecturer in English and Creative Writing at the University of Winchester, UK.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements
1. Introduction: Adaptation and Cultural History
2. Sherlock Holmes and the Authenticity of Crime
3. Miss Marple, Criminality and Englishness
4. Morse, Heritage and the End of History
5. Jack Frost and the Condition of England Question
6. Cadfael, Medievalism and Modern Nationhood
7. DCI Barnaby and an English Aesthetics of Crime
8. Conclusion: Detecting the Nation
Bibliography
Index