From Agatha Christie to Ruth Rendell
British Women Writers in Detective and Crime Fiction
Palgrave Macmillan · Print & ebook · December 19, 2000
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- Genres
- Mystery & Crime Crit, Women Authors Criticism, Feminist Lit Crit
- Published
- Palgrave Macmillan, December 19, 2000
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From Agatha Christie to Ruth Rendell is the first book to consider seriously the hugely popular and influential works of Agatha Christie, Dorothy L.Sayers, Margery Allingham, Ngaio Marsh, P.D. James and Ruth Rendell/Barbara Vine. Providing studies of forty-two key novels, this volume introduces these authors for students and the general reader in the context of their lives, and of critical debates on gender, colonialism, psychoanalysis, the Gothic, and feminism.
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It includes interviews with P.D. James and Ruth Rendell/Barbara Vine.
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| Mystery & Crime Crit | 89% |
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| Women Authors Criticism | 59% |
| Feminist Lit Crit | 40% |
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Publisher categories
- Sociology
- Authors
- S. Rowland, Susan Rowland, Clive Bloom
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Published
- December 19, 2000
- Format
- Print & ebook
- Reading lane
- Sociology