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<p><p><i>From Agatha Christie to Ruth Rendell</i> 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.<p></p><h3>Booknews</h3><p>Herself writing in a spare, factual style fitting of the detectives she critiques, Rowland (English, U. of Greenwich, England) surveys women crime writers, exploring the elements of Gothic horror, gender, psychoanalysis, and colonialism contained within their works. She considers 42 novels by Agatha Christie, Dorothy Sayers, Ngaio Marsh, Margery Allingham, P.D. James, and Ruth Rendell/Barbara Vine in comparative chapters divided by theme. Appendices contain lists of the authors' complete works and interviews with P.D. James and Ruth Rendell/Barbara Vine. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)</p>

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Author

Susan Rowland

Publisher

Palgrave Macmillan UK

Published

2001

Language

EN

ISBN

9780333684634

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Anthropology, Fiction, Mystery