From Agatha Christie to Ruth Rendell: British Women Writers in Detective and Crime Fiction

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Palgrave Macmillan, Mar 7, 2001 - Fiction - 222 pages
From Agatha Christie to Ruth Rendell is the first book to consider seriously the hugely popular and influential works of Agatha Christie, Dorothy L. Sayers, Margery Allingham, Nag Marsh, P.D. James and Ruth Rendell/Barbara Vine. Providing studies of 42 key novels, this volume introduces these authors for students and the general reader in the context of their lives, and of critical debates on gender, colonialism, psychoanalysis, the Gothic, and feminism. It includes interviews with P.D. James and Ruth Rendell/Barbara Vine.

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About the author (2001)

SUSAN ROWLAND is a Senior Lecturer in English at the University of Greenwich. She is also author of C.G.Jung and Literary Theory: The Challenge from Fiction (1999). She has published upon the work of Michèle Roberts, Doris Lessing and Margaret Attwood, among others.

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TitleFrom Agatha Christie to Ruth Rendell: British Women Writers in Detective and Crime Fiction
Crime Files
AuthorSusan Rowland
Editionillustrated, reprint, revised
PublisherPalgrave Macmillan, 2001
ISBN0333674502, 9780333674505
Length222 pages
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Fiction / General
Literary Criticism / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
Literary Criticism / General
Literary Criticism / Modern / 19th Century
Literary Criticism / Modern / 20th Century
Literary Criticism / Mystery & Detective
Literary Criticism / Semiotics & Theory
Literary Criticism / Women Authors
Social Science / Anthropology / Cultural & Social
Social Science / Gender Studies
Social Science / Sociology / General
Social Science / Women's Studies
  
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