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UNINA9910782294503321 |
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Autore |
York R.A |
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Titolo |
Agatha Christie: Power and Illusion [[electronic resource] /] / by R.A. York |
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Pubbl/distr/stampa |
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London : , : Palgrave Macmillan UK : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2007 |
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ISBN |
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1-281-36042-2 |
9786611360429 |
0-230-59078-0 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed. 2007.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (184 p.) |
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Collana |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Literature, Modern—20th century |
British literature |
Literature, Modern—19th century |
Fiction |
Twentieth-Century Literature |
British and Irish Literature |
Nineteenth-Century Literature |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Cover; Contents; Acknowledgements; 1 Introduction; 2 The Spectacle of Death; 3 The Wrong Angle; 4 Actors and Imposters; 5 Human Nature; 6 The Self and the Other; 7 Change and Decay; 8 The War of Good and Evil; 9 Clues; 10 The Myth of Crime; 11 The Real and the Unreal; 12 The Culture; 13 Curtain: A Conclusion; Bibliography; Index |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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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. |
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