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, Ngaio Marsh, P.D. James and Ruth Rendell/Barbara Vine. Providing studies of forty-two 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.
| ISBN: | 9780333674505 |
| Publication date: | 19th December 2000 |
| Author: | Susan Rowland |
| Publisher: | Palgrave Macmillan an imprint of Palgrave Macmillan UK |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Pagination: | 224 pages |
| Series: | Crime Files |
| Genres: |
Gender studies, gender groups Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900 Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000 Cultural studies Literary theory Fiction |