From Agatha Christie To Ruth Rendell: British Women Writers in Detective and Crime Fiction (Crime Files) [Hardcover]

Susan Rowland (Author)

Book Description

Series: Crime Files | Publication Date: March 7, 2001

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.

Editorial Reviews

Review

'Traditionally crime fiction ends with identifying the criminal and thus re-establishing the social and moral order. However Susan demonstrates that the six writers are concerned with replotting the process of crime novels in ways which affect the reading process.' - Christopher Dean, The Dorothy L. Sayers Society Newsletter

About the Author

Susan Rowland is Senior Lecturer in English, University of Greenwich.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 236 pages
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan (March 7, 2001)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0333674502
• ISBN-13: 978-0333674505
• Product Dimensions: 8.5 x 5.8 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 14.4 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,879,745 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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