Unwilling Executioner: Crime Fiction and the State

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Unwilling Executioner: Crime Fiction and the State
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Dedication
Preface and Acknowledgements
Table of Contents
Introduction: Crime Fiction as Unwilling Executioner
	THIS IS NOT A HISTORY
	CRIME FICTION AS WORLD LITERATURE
	THE POLITICS OF CRIME
	THE STATE OF SOVEREIGNTY
1: ‘A Life of Horrid and Inimitable Wickedness’: Crime, Law, and Punishment in Early Eighteenth-century London and Paris
	HOBBES’ LEVIATHAN, GALLOWS CONFESSIONS, ARRÊTS CRIMINELS, AND MÉMOIRES JUDICIARIES
	BERNARD MANDEVILLE’S PRIVATE VICES AND PUBLIC BENEFITS
	LOUIS DOMINIQUE CARTOUCHE, JONATHAN WILD, AND THE AMBIVALENCE OF STATE POWER
	THE PROBLEM OF CRIME AND PRIVATE PROPERTY: THE BEGGAR’S OPERA
	PITAVAL’S ‘SINGULAR AND INTERESTING HISTORIES’ AND FIELDING’S ‘WILD’
2: ‘Let Us Attack Injustice at Its Source’: Crime Literature in an Era of Revolution and Reform
	CALEB WILLIAMS: ‘GOVERNMENT . . . IS A QUESTION OF FORCE’
	CRIMINAL TO/AND POLICEMAN: MEMOIRS OF VIDOCQ
	POSTSCRIPT: BALZAC AND VAUTRIN
3: ‘A Mysterious Power Whose Hand is Everywhere: ’Imagining the State and Codifying the Law in the Mid-nineteenth Century
	PUBLIC VERSUS PRIVATE: LIBERAL, MARXIST, FEMINIST DEFINITIONS
	IMAGINING THE STATE
	THE PUBLIC/PRIVATE DICHOTOMY
	UNCIVIL SOCIETY
4: Crime, Business, and Liberty at the Turn of the Century: The Individual, the State, and the Emergence of Modern Capitalism
	THE STATE SHRINKS, DISSOCIATES, AND RETURNS: DOYLE AND LEROUX
	CRIME, BUSINESS, AND LIBERTY IN DOYLE AND MORRISON
	FANTÔMAS AND THE RADICAL AMBIVALENCE OF MODERNITY
5: ‘No Good for Business: ’States of Crime in the 1920s and 1930s
	Hamett , Gramsci, Brecht—and Simenon
	Hamett and Simenon 1: A Philosophy of Disquiet
	Hamett and Brecht: The Long Arm of the State
	Simenon and Hamett 2: Papering Over the Cracks
6: ‘On the Barricades’: Crime Fiction and Commitment in an Era of Radical Politics
	The Absurdity of Reason: Sciascia and DÜrrenmatt
	De-Mystifying the Capitalist State: Sjöwall and Wahlöö, Himes, Manchette 1
	The Political Absurd: Himes, Sjöwall and Wahlöö, Manchette 2
	The Revolution Next Time: Sjöwall and Wahlöö, Himes, Manchette 3
7: From Sovereignty to Neoliberalism: Crime Fiction in the Contemporary World
	The State of Emergency and Parapolitics: David Peace and Eoin McName
	Sovereignty , Neoliberalism, Gender: Margie Orford, Natsuo Kirino, and Dominique Manotti
	Capitalist Noir: Piere Lemaitre, Lauren Beukes, James Salis, and Masimo Carlotto
	Borders, Sovereignty , and The Globe: Don Winslow and China Miévile
Conclusion
Select Bibliography
	PRIMARY SOURCES
	SECONDARY SOURCES
Index