The rise of the detective in early nineteenth-century popular fiction
Publisher: MacMillan; Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2005
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 203
ISBN-13: 9780333714713
Description: "From Agatha Christie to Ruth Rendell considers 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."--Jacket.