From Agatha Christie to Ruth Rendell: British Women Writers in Detective and Crime Fiction (Crime Files)
Susan Rowland
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Description for From Agatha Christie to Ruth Rendell: British Women Writers in Detective and Crime Fiction (Crime Files)
Hardcover. Providing studies of 42 key novels by such authors as Agatha Christie, Ruth Rendell and P.D. James, this work introduces these authors for students and the general reader within the contexts of their lives, and critical debates on gender, colonialism, psychoanalysis, the Gothic, and feminism. Series: Crime Files. Num Pages: 232 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; 3JH; 3JJ; DSBF; DSBH; DSK; JFC; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 224 x 137 x 18. Weight in Grams: 392.
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.
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.
Product Details
Publisher
AIAA
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2001
Series
Crime Files
Condition
New
Weight
392g
Number of Pages
222
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780333674505
SKU
V9780333674505
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99-15
About Susan Rowland
SUSAN ROWLAND is a Senior Lecturer in English at the University of Greenwich. She is also author of C.G.Jung and Literary Theory: The Challenge from Fiction (1999). She has published upon the work of Michele Roberts, Doris Lessing and Margaret Attwood, among others.
Reviews for From Agatha Christie to Ruth Rendell: British Women Writers in Detective and Crime Fiction (Crime Files)
'Traditionally crime fiction ends with identifying the criminal and thus re-establishing the social and moral order. However Susan demonstrates that the six writers are concerned with replotting the process of crime novels in ways which affect the reading process.' - Christopher Dean, The Dorothy L. Sayers Society Newsletter