Economic Investigations in 20th-Century Detective Fiction - Image 1

£151.26

Routledge Economic Investigations in 20th-Century Detective Fiction

Name: Economic Investigations in 20th-Century Detective Fiction
Brand: Routledge
Price: 151.26 GBP
Availability: InStock

Business & Economic History

This is the most expensive it has ever been. Walk away.

£151 today · previous high £151 · all-time low £137

NEW HERE?

Amazon shows you one price. We show you all of them.

Tosheroon watches Amazon prices so you don't have to. Every product on Amazon has a price history — we make it visible. Set the price you'd actually pay, and we'll email you the second it gets there. No app, no account, one email.

WHAT'S ON THIS PAGE

↓ Price chart
when this has been cheap or pricey

↓ Forecast
where the price is heading next

↓ Statistics
all-time high & low, recent range

↑ Price alert
name your number, we'll email you

Price History & Forecast

Grey patches = out of stock. Cheaper = lower on the chart. Hover for exact prices.

Last 21 days · 21 data points (no recent data)

Historical

Generating forecast…

Price Distribution

Price distribution over 21 days • 2 price levels

Days at Price

Current Price

Price Analysis

Most common price: £137 (20 days, 95.2%)

Price range: £137 - £151

Price levels: 2 different prices over 21 days

Description

Explore how Golden Age and hard-boiled detective fiction from 1890 to 1950 reveals deep structures of economic value, labour, and social knowledge. This Routledge study by Yan Zi-Ling distinguishes between the two subgenres through their treatment of productive systems and institutional power. Golden Age detective narratives emerge as fundamentally conservationist, with investigators acting to stabilise existing economic and social institutions according to specific ideological frameworks. Hard-boiled detective fiction, by contrast, interrogates criminal investigation as a lens onto different social interests and labour relations. Drawing on textual analysis and economic theory, the book argues that detective fiction isn't merely entertainment but a sophisticated arena where twentieth-century anxieties about value, work, and social order are actively negotiated and contested.

Key Features

Compares Golden Age and hard-boiled detective fiction subgenres through their distinct approaches to economic value and labour representation.

Analyses how detective characters function as enforcers of institutional and ideological interests within their respective narrative frameworks.

Covers detective fiction spanning 1890 to 1950, capturing the evolution of economic thinking across two distinct literary movements.

Published by Routledge with scholarly rigour suitable for students of literary criticism, economic history, and detective fiction studies.

Examines conservationist themes in Golden Age texts and their contrast with the ideological challenges posed by hard-boiled narratives.

Product Specifications

Brand: Routledge
Format: hardcover
ASIN: 1472452534
Category: Books > Subjects > Business, Finance & Law > Biographies & Histories > Business & Economic History
Domain: Amazon UK
Release Date: 28 April 2015
Listed Since: 05 December 2014

Barcode

No barcode data available

Routledge Economic Investigations in 20th-Century Detective Fiction

This is the most expensive it has ever been. Walk away.

Price History & Forecast

Price Distribution

Price Analysis

Description

Key Features

Product Specifications

Barcode

Similar Products You Might Like

Theory and Practice of Classic Detective Fiction (Contributions to the Study of Popular Culture)

The Edwardian Detective: 1901-15 (Routledge Revivals)

The Idea of Education in Golden Age Detective Fiction (Literature and Education)

The Detective in American Fiction, Film, and Television (Contributions to the Study of Popular Culture)

Critical Essays on English and Bengali Detective Fiction

The Ambivalent Detective in Victorian Sensation Novels - Dickens, Braddon, Collins

New Perspectives on Detective Fiction: Mystery Magnified (Routledge Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Literature)

Detective (Portal Games, deutsche Ausgabe) (Nominiert Kennerspiel des Jahres 2019)

British Murder Mysteries, 1880-1965: Facts and Fictions (Crime Files)

Detective Fiction for Young Readers - Mystery Analysis

The Rise of the Detective in Early Nineteenth-Century Popular Fiction (Crime Files)

The Imagination of Evil: Detective Fiction and the Modern World (Continuum Literary Studies)

Beeinflussung Und Steuerung Des Lesers in Der Englischsprachigen Detektiv- Und Kriminalliteratur: Eine Vergleichende Untersuchung Zur Beziehung ... Des Fachbereichs Translations-, Sprach-)

Police Detectives in History, 1750–1950

A Ross Macdonald Companion

Purity and Contamination in Late Victorian Detective Fiction

Staging Detection: Victorian Theatre & Detective Performance

God and the Little Grey Cells: Religion in Agatha Christie's Poirot Stories

Detective Fiction and the Rise of Forensic Science (Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture): 26 (Cambridge Studies in ... Literature and Culture, Series Number 26)

Crime Fiction in the Age of #MeToo

Gender and Representation in British ‘Golden Age’ Crime Fiction (Crime Files)

Allusion in Detective Fiction: Shakespeare, the Bible and Dorothy L. Sayers (Crime Files)

The Ethical Detective: Moral Philosophy and Detective Fiction

The Colonial Conan Doyle: British Imperialism, Irish Nationalism, and the Gothic: 114 (Contributions to the Study of World Literature)