Agatha Christie: Power and Illusion

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ISBN: 0230525016
ISBN 13: 9780230525016
Autor: York, R A
Verlag: Springer Verlag GmbH
Umfang: viii, 175 S.
Erscheinungsdatum: 31.07.2007
Auflage: 1/2007
Produktform: Gebunden/Hardback
Einband: GEB

Agatha Christie is extremely popular (most widely published female author in the world) but still relatively little critical attention of her worksStudies Christie’s moral perspective, revising the general view of her as a conservative, and looks at her attitudes to gender and classMay have some cross-over appeal for general readers of ChristieChristie also increasingly studied in context of gender/women’s studies courses

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Beschreibung

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.

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.

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