‘It’s a narsty biziness’ : conservatism and subversion in 1930s detective fiction and thrillers
(2020)
Book Chapter
White, G. (2021). ‘It’s a narsty biziness’ : conservatism and subversion in 1930s detective fiction and thrillers. In N. Hubble, L. Seabor, & E. Taylor (Eds.), The 1930s: A Decade of Modern British Fiction (239-272). Bloomsbury. https://doi.org/10.5040/9781350079175.ch-008
This chapter focuses on popular fiction and particularly the crime genre, encompassing both the detective story and the thriller. Critical surveys looking back across the decades finds these subgenres difficult to distinguish over time but writers of... Read More about ‘It’s a narsty biziness’ : conservatism and subversion in 1930s detective fiction and thrillers.