Unwilling Executioner : Crime Fiction and the State
- Submitting institution
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Queen's University of Belfast
- Unit of assessment
- 27 - English Language and Literature
- Output identifier
- 91645714
- Type
- A - Authored book
- DOI
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- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- ISBN
- 978-0-19-871618-1
- Open access status
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- Month of publication
- April
- Year of publication
- 2016
- URL
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- Supplementary information
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
- No
- Number of additional authors
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0
- Research group(s)
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- Proposed double-weighted
- Yes
- Double-weighted statement
- Unwilling Executioner, published by OUP, is the culmination of 10 years of research into crime fiction and, at 150,000 words, is an expansive, extensive examination of its subject: the 300-year relationship between crime fiction as an emerging genre and the power of the modern state and capital. The book is also one of the key works to interrogate and historicise the genre’s global turn, extending its focus beyond the Anglophone world, compelling the TLS to comment: “Pepper offers nothing less than a long history of the crime novel as world literature, its roots in England but its branches universal” (9.2.17).
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
- No
- Additional information
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- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
- No
- English abstract
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