Books by Dr Neil McCaw

Offers an examination of how crime and criminality representations within adapted UK detective dramas impact contemporary definitions of Englishness. This title presents a study of the politics of representation in the last decades of the twentieth century, and the role television detective fiction plays in this.

With reference to television series such as "The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes", "Inspector Morse", and "Midsomer Murders", this title uses adaptation as the basis for an exercise in later twentieth-century cultural history, illustrating the fundamental role detective fictions play in popular beliefs about the nature of crime and Englishness.