Barnes, Charlotte. Deconstructing True Crime Literature. Palgrave Macmillan, 2023, 227 pp. ISBN 978-3-031-41044-4

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  • Kata Annamária Nagy University of Pécs

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https://doi.org/10.15170/Focus.15.2025.9

Abstract

This review discusses Charlotte Barnes’s Deconstructing True Crime Literature, emphasizing its effort to theorize a fluid and evolving genre. It highlights Barnes’s classification of True Crime into subgenres, her focus on issues of authenticity, authorial presence, and ethics, and her analysis of key texts. The review underscores the monograph’s accessibility and its contribution to establishing a critical framework for understanding True Crime, particularly its moral responsibilities toward real-life subjects.

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2025-12-31

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Nagy, K. A. (2025). Barnes, Charlotte. Deconstructing True Crime Literature. Palgrave Macmillan, 2023, 227 pp. ISBN 978-3-031-41044-4. FOCUS: Papers in English Literary and Cultural Studies, 15(1), 97–98. https://doi.org/10.15170/Focus.15.2025.9

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Vol. 15 No. 1 (2025): Institutional Contexts

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Reviews

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