Richard York

Agatha Christie: Power and Illusion

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This new edition to the Crime Files series considers how the cozy world of Agatha Christie is threatened by modernity and uncertainty: war, social mobility, extremist politics and moral liberalization.

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This study shows how she sought to reconcile her attachment to the Victorian past with her recognition of a new society that undermined established order and in doing so gave more opportunities to women, confused class-boundaries, extended tolerance, allowed the cult of pleasure and self-assertion and revealed the ambiguities of respectability.

Produktdetails

• Crime Files
• Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan / Palgrave Macmillan UK / Springer Palgrave Macmillan
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 978-0-230-52501-6
• 2007
• Seitenzahl: 175
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Juli 2007
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 220mm x 161mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 385g
• ISBN-13: 9780230525016
• ISBN-10: 0230525016
• Artikelnr.: 22745421

Autorenporträt

R.A YORK was educated at Emmanuel College Cambridge, UK and University College London. In 1969 he joined the University of Ulster, UK, eventually becoming Emeritus Professor of European Literature. He has published on European, British and American literature, with a special interest in literary form and language.

Inhaltsangabe

Ackowledgements Introduction The spectacle of death The wrong angle Actors and imposters Human nature The self and the other Change and decay The war of good and evil Clues The myth of crime The real and the unreal The culture Curtain: a conclusion Bibliography Index