Guilty but insane: mind and law in golden age detective fiction
- Submitting institution
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Bath Spa University
- Unit of assessment
- 27 - English Language and Literature
- Output identifier
- 1463
- Type
- A - Authored book
- DOI
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- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- ISBN
- 9780198723325
- Open access status
- Out of scope for open access requirements
- Month of publication
- January
- Year of publication
- 2015
- URL
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- Supplementary information
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- Request cross-referral to
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
- No
- Criminology
- No
- 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
- This 322-page monograph comprises four years of meticulous interdisciplinary research into: interwar detective fiction; psychological theory and case-studies; and medico-legal documents, including Parliamentary debates, case law, trial transcripts and criminology. The research was particularly challenging, as it explored literary study at its intersection with the medical humanities and legal history, requiring engagement with numerous emerging and well-established fields. To reclaim the detective novel as a powerful site of social critique I needed to become adept in historicist methodologies; research the largely untold history of British interwar psy-disciplines; and engage with scholarship concerning the relation between popular fiction and literary modernism.
- 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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