{"product_id":"intrigue-allan-hepburn-9780300104981","title":"Intrigue: Espionage and Culture","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAn inventive and surprising examination of a century of spy fiction.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Why do spies have such cachet in the twentieth century? Why do they keep reinventing themselves? What do they mean in a political process? This book examines the tradition of the spy narrative from its inception in the late nineteenth century through the present day. Ranging from John le Carr 's bestsellers to Elizabeth Bowen's novels, from James Bond to John Banville's contemporary narratives, Allan Hepburn sets the historical contexts of these fictions: the Cambridge spy ring; the Profumo Affair; the witch-hunts against gay men in the civil service and diplomatic corps in the 1950s.\u003cp\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Instead of focusing on the formulaic nature of the genre, \u003ci\u003eIntrigue\u003c\/i\u003e emphasizes the responsiveness of spy stories to particular historical contingencies. Hepburn begins by offering a systematic theory of the conventions and attractions of espionage fiction and then examines the British and Irish tradition of spy novels. A final section considers the particular form that American spy narratives have taken as they have cross-fertilized with the tradition of American romance in works such as Joan Didion's \u003ci\u003eDemocracy \u003c\/i\u003eand\u003ci\u003e\u003c\/i\u003eJohn Barth's \u003ci\u003eSabbatical.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Allan Hepburn\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0300104987\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780300104981\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Yale University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/11\/2005\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 352\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.36lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.52h x 6.42w x 0.97d","brand":"Allan Hepburn","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":44169647423743,"sku":"9780300104981","price":74.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_5a379abb-e736-4310-a3bd-779ffe5ed6bb.jpg?v=1689654126","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/intrigue-allan-hepburn-9780300104981","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}