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Cambridge University Press The Mysteries of Modern Life: Mystery Fiction, Popular Narrative, and the Politics of Vision

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Mystery fiction has long been regarded a conservative genre that focuses on crime, surveillance, and the restoration of disrupted social order. Such assessments, however, usually consider only a very small subset of works. We find a very different story if we consider the mysteries of modern life more widely, starting with the international, penny-press phenomenon of the mid-nineteenth century city-mysteries narrative. Expanding and historicizing the genre in this way reveals diverse variants of popular mystery that emerged out of the city mysteries – up to and including the detective story – and that constitute an extraordinarily wide-ranging and socially radical genre. The paradoxical attitudes towards visual powers and problems at the heart of the modern mystery cultivates a form of master-perception concerned more with identification with than identification of and models forms of empathetic vision that work to challenge the very social hierarchies the genre has often been understood to uphold.

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Brand: Cambridge University Press
Format: hardcover
ASIN: 1009604791
Category: Books > Subjects > Comics & Graphic Novels > Genre > Crime & Mystery
Domain: Amazon UK
Release Date: 10 September 2026
Listed Since: 24 November 2025

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