Economic Investigations in Twentieth-Century Detective Fiction: Expenditure, Labor, Value
| By: | Yan, Zi-Ling, Professor |
| Publisher: | Taylor & Francis |
| Print ISBN: | 9781472452535 |
| eText ISBN: | 9781472452559 |
| Edition: | 0 |
| Format: | Reflowable |
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In his study of Golden Age and hard-boiled detective fiction from 1890 to 1950, Yan Zi-Ling argues that these two subgenres can be distinguished not only by theme and style, but by the way they structure knowledge, value, and productive labour. Using the detective as a reference point and enactor of socially based interests, Yan shows that Golden Age texts are distinguished by their conservationism (and not only by their conservatism), with the detectives