{"product_id":"animals-in-detective-fiction-ruth-hawthorn-9783031092435","title":"Animals in Detective Fiction","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis book explores the vast array of animals that populate detective fiction. If the genre begins, as is widely supposed, with Edgar Allan Poe's \"Murders in the Rue Morgue\" (1841), then detective fiction's very first culprit is an animal. Animals, moreover, consistently appear as victims, clues, and companions, while the abstract conception of animality is closely tied to the idea of criminality. Although it is often described as an essentially conservative form, detective fiction can unsettle the binary of human and animal to intersect with developing concerns in animal studies: animal agency, the ethical complexities of human\/animal interaction, the politics and literary aesthetics of violence, and animal metaphor. Gathering its 14 essays into sections on \u003ci\u003eontologies\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eethics\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003epolitics\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eforms\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eAnimals in Detective Fiction\u003c\/i\u003e provides a compelling and nuanced analysis of the central role creatures play in this enduringly popular and continually morphing literary form.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Ruth Hawthorn\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 3031092430\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9783031092435\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Palgrave MacMillan\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 12\/07\/2023\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 311\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.86lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.27h x 5.83w x 0.69d","brand":"Ruth Hawthorn","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44966209880319,"sku":"9783031092435","price":139.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_09c51846-1d6d-4cf4-98e3-f6cc0f223e27.jpg?v=1711159188","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/animals-in-detective-fiction-ruth-hawthorn-9783031092435","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}