03210nam 22007215 450 991078229450332120200920001013.01-281-36042-297866113604290-230-59078-010.1057/9780230590786(CKB)1000000000534633(EBL)344998(OCoLC)314799607(SSID)ssj0000100172(PQKBManifestationID)11140557(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000100172(PQKBWorkID)10021218(PQKB)11123932(DE-He213)978-0-230-59078-6(MiAaPQ)EBC344998(EXLCZ)99100000000053463320151030d2007 u| 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrAgatha Christie: Power and Illusion[electronic resource] /by R.A. York1st ed. 2007.London :Palgrave Macmillan UK :Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan,2007.1 online resource (184 p.)Crime FilesDescription based upon print version of record.1-349-35741-3 0-230-52501-6 Includes bibliographical references and index.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; IndexThis 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.Crime FilesLiterature, Modern—20th centuryBritish literatureLiterature, Modern—19th centuryFictionTwentieth-Century Literaturehttps://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/822000British and Irish Literaturehttps://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/833000Nineteenth-Century Literaturehttps://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/821000Fictionhttps://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/825000Literature, Modern—20th century.British literature.Literature, Modern—19th century.Fiction.Twentieth-Century Literature.British and Irish Literature.Nineteenth-Century Literature.Fiction.823.912823/.912York R.Aauthttp://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut1555577BOOK9910782294503321Agatha Christie: Power and Illusion3817592UNINA