| Agatha Christie: Power and Illusion 2007 Edition Contributor(s): York, R. a. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0230525016 ISBN-13: 9780230525016 Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan OUR PRICE: $109.25 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: July 2007 Annotation: How cozy are Agatha Christie's novels? They may seem to depict a stable world of respect for tradition, shared culture, settled gender and class roles, political conservatism and unambiguous morality, in which reason suffices to control disorder. But this world is threatened by modernity and uncertainty: war, social mobility, extremist politics, moral liberalization. Prominent citizens may be criminals, detectives are not wholly unlike murderers, social life is largely theatrical, and violence can bring about harmony. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh - Literary Criticism | Modern - 20th Century - Literary Criticism | European - General |
| Dewey: 823.912 |
| Series: Crime Files |
| Physical Information: 0.64" H x 6.35" W x 8.65" (0.77 lbs) 175 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - British Isles |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |