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Guilty But Insane offers a timely and challenging discussion of the relationship between popular literature, science, and what it means to be human by examining how writers of detective fiction during the 1920s to 1940s understood guilt, responsibility, and the workings of the mind in relation to crime.
Samantha Walton's Guilty But Insane offers a fascinating reworking of the ['golden age'] era, utilising the lens of psychology to investigate issues of punishment and legality.
the attention she [Walton] brings to lesser-known writers such as the "unjustly neglected" Gladys Mitchell, enables a richer and more accurate understanding of a body of literature that, as she convincingly demonstrates, has too often been casually homogenized and dismissed.
Walton successfully relates all of these societal and literary developments into a coherent whole, and brings a new perspective to the ongoing reinterpretation and reevaluation of golden age crime fiction.
Samantha Walton is a Lecturer in English Literature at Bath Spa University. Previously, she taught at the University of Edinburgh, where she also completed her doctorate. In 2013 she was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Institute of Advanced Studies in the Humanities at the University of Edinburgh, and a Bright Ideas Fellow at the ESRC Genomics Policy and Research Forum.
Samantha Walton's Guilty But Insane offers a fascinating reworking of the ['golden age'] era, utilising the lens of psychology to investigate issues of punishment and legality.
the attention she [Walton] brings to lesser-known writers such as the "unjustly neglected" Gladys Mitchell, enables a richer and more accurate understanding of a body of literature that, as she convincingly demonstrates, has too often been casually homogenized and dismissed.
Walton successfully relates all of these societal and literary developments into a coherent whole, and brings a new perspective to the ongoing reinterpretation and reevaluation of golden age crime fiction.
Samantha Walton is a Lecturer in English Literature at Bath Spa University. Previously, she taught at the University of Edinburgh, where she also completed her doctorate. In 2013 she was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Institute of Advanced Studies in the Humanities at the University of Edinburgh, and a Bright Ideas Fellow at the ESRC Genomics Policy and Research Forum.