03024nam 22008055 450 991097225290332120240321231155.09786611360429978128136042712813604229780230590786023059078010.1057/9780230590786(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(Perlego)3500376(EXLCZ)99100000000053463320151030d2007 u| 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrAgatha Christie: Power and Illusion /by R.A. York1st ed. 2007.London :Palgrave Macmillan UK :Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan,2007.1 online resource (184 p.)Crime Files,2947-8359Description based upon print version of record.9781349357413 1349357413 9780230525016 0230525016 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 Files,2947-8359Literature, Modern20th centuryEuropean literatureLiterature, Modern19th centuryFictionTwentieth-Century LiteratureEuropean LiteratureNineteenth-Century LiteratureFiction LiteratureLiterature, ModernEuropean literature.Literature, ModernFiction.Twentieth-Century Literature.European Literature.Nineteenth-Century Literature.Fiction Literature.823/.912York R. A.1941-1792597MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910972252903321Agatha Christie: Power and Illusion4331265UNINA