From Agatha Christie to Ruth Rendell British Women Writers in Detective and Crime Fiction

Title:

ISBN:

9780230598782

Personal Author:

Rowland, S. author.

Edition:

1st ed. 2001.

Publication Information New:

London : Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2001.

Physical Description:

X, 222 p. online resource.

Series:

Crime Files,

Abstract:

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. It includes interviews with P.D. James and Ruth Rendell/Barbara Vine.

Subject Term:

Sex.

Culture -- Study and teaching.

Literature, Modern -- 19th century.

Literature, Modern -- 20th century.

Fiction.

Literature -- Philosophy.

Gender Studies.

Cultural Studies.

Nineteenth-Century Literature.

Twentieth-Century Literature.

Fiction Literature.