Deviance in Contemporary Crime Fiction

By Christiana Gregoriou

Book Overview

This book explores the three aspects of deviance that contemporary crime fiction manipulates: linguistic, social, and generic. Gregoriou conducts case studies into crime series by James Patterson, Michael Connelly and Patricia Cornwell, and investigates the way in which these novelists correspondingly challenge those aforementioned conventions.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0230594638
• ISBN13: 9780230594630
• Release Date: January 2007
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 178 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.5" x 8.5"