Foreign Crime Stories in Flanders (1900-1940): Translating a Popular Genre, Disseminating Ideas Ghent University
This project focusses on a selection of the many foreign crime stories in translation in Flanders between c. 1900 and 1940. The corpus comprises both crime stories that were published as books and crime stories that appeared in serial form in newspapers. The present research is the first to map out the circulation of foreign (mostly English and French) crime fiction in early-twentieth-century Flanders and to analyze the strategies that ...