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Agatha Christie: Power and Illusion (Crime Files)

By Richard York

Book information

Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Year
2007
ISBN
0230525016, 9780230525016, 9780230590786
Open Library ID
OL10194480M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
1006 kB (1030221 bytes)
Edition
First Edition
Pages
184\184
Time added
2011-08-31 04:54:40

Description

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.

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