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Agatha Christie: Power and Illusion
Richard York
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Description for Agatha Christie: Power and Illusion
Paperback. This new edition to the Crime Files series considers how the cozy world of Agatha Christie is threatened by modernity and uncertainty: war, social mobility, extremist politics and moral liberalization. Series: Crime Files. Num Pages: 183 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBF; DSBH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
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.
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.
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
183
Condition
New
Series
Crime Files
Number of Pages
175
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781349357413
SKU
V9781349357413
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Ref
99-15
About Richard York
R.A YORK was educated at Emmanuel College Cambridge, UK and University College London. In 1969 he joined the University of Ulster, UK, eventually becoming Emeritus Professor of European Literature. He has published on European, British and American literature, with a special interest in literary form and language.
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