From Agatha Christie to Ruth Rendell
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From Agatha Christie to Ruth Rendell

British Women Writers in Detective and Crime Fiction

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eBook - PDF

From Agatha Christie to Ruth Rendell

British Women Writers in Detective and Crime Fiction

About this book

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.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Contents
  3. Preface
  4. 1 Lives of Crime
  5. 2 Gendering the Genre
  6. 3 Social Negotiations: Class, Crime and Power
  7. 4 Lands of Hope and Glory? Englishness, Race and Colonialism
  8. 5 Detecting Psychoanalysis: Readers, Criminals and Narrative
  9. 6 Gothic Crimes: A Literature of Terror and Horror
  10. 7 The Spirits of Detection
  11. 8 Feminism Is Criminal
  12. Appendix A: The Complete Detective and Crime Novels of the Six Authors
  13. Appendix B: A Conversation with Ruth Rendell/Barbara Vine
  14. Appendix C: A Conversation with P.D. James
  15. Notes
  16. Select Bibliography
  17. Index