Brit/Irish Detective Fiction

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By focusing on the representative detective novels of 20th-and 21st-century Britain and Ireland, this course charts popular culture’s complex and often contradictory influence on representations of class, gender, and disability. Starting with the ‘Golden Age’ of detective fiction in interwar Britain, this course will consider the rise of feminist crime fiction as well as questions of national and post-imperial identities in British and Irish detective novels.