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Record Nr.

UNINA9910782294503321

Autore

York R.A

Titolo

Agatha Christie: Power and Illusion [[electronic resource] /] / by R.A. York

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London : , : Palgrave Macmillan UK : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2007

ISBN

1-281-36042-2

9786611360429

0-230-59078-0

Edizione

[1st ed. 2007.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (184 p.)

Collana

Crime Files

Disciplina

823.912

823/.912

Soggetti

Literature, Modern—20th century

British literature

Literature, Modern—19th century

Fiction

Twentieth-Century Literature

British and Irish Literature

Nineteenth-Century Literature

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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

Sommario/riassunto

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.