(Paperback)

(Hardback)

Throughout the 20th century, many critics have predicted the loss of intellectual creativity through the growth of institutional forms of direction and control. This book argues that this is now occuring in universities. The author demonstrates how this is both anti- democratic and intellectual and offers an alternative.

(Paperback, NIPPOD)

A monograph investigating the way in which detective fiction reflects wider issues in society.

(Hardback)

Examines detective fiction and its complex relationship to the modern and to modernity. This monograph focuses on two key themes: the moral relationship of detection to a particular social world and the attempt to restore and even improve the social world that has been threatened and fractured by a crime, usually that of murder.