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‘Tale engineering’ : Agatha Christie and the aftermath of the Second World War
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dc.contributor.author | Plain, Gill | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2020-11-06T10:30:03Z | |
dc.date.available | 2020-11-06T10:30:03Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2020-11-01 | |
dc.identifier | 264078933 | |
dc.identifier | f10fe489-d83c-432d-bddd-e78f1a387530 | |
dc.identifier | 85092904921 | |
dc.identifier | 000580601700004 | |
dc.identifier.citation | Plain , G 2020 , ' ‘Tale engineering’ : Agatha Christie and the aftermath of the Second World War ' , Literature and History , vol. 29 , no. 2 , pp. 179-199 . https://doi.org/10.1177/0306197320945945 | en |
dc.identifier.issn | 0306-1973 | |
dc.identifier.other | ORCID: /0000-0002-3387-4850/work/82501151 | |
dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/10023/20915 | |
dc.description.abstract | The ‘golden age’ of clue-puzzle detective fiction is usually considered to end in 1939 with the outbreak of the Second World War. Yet Agatha Christie, the most high-profile and successful exponent of the form, continued to produce bestselling novels until her death in 1976. This essay examines three novels from the immediate postwar period to consider how she adapted her writing to negotiate a changing world and evolving fashions in genre fiction. Engaging with grief, demobilisation, gender, citizenship and the new fears of the atomic age, Christie proves unexpectedly attentive to the anxieties of a new modernity. | |
dc.format.extent | 21 | |
dc.format.extent | 308070 | |
dc.language.iso | eng | |
dc.relation.ispartof | Literature and History | en |
dc.subject | Agatha Christie | en |
dc.subject | Crime fiction | en |
dc.subject | Second World War | en |
dc.subject | Postwar | en |
dc.subject | Cold War | en |
dc.subject | Gender | en |
dc.subject | D731 World War II | en |
dc.subject | PR English literature | en |
dc.subject | T-NDAS | en |
dc.subject | BDC | en |
dc.subject | R2C | en |
dc.subject | SDG 16 - Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions | en |
dc.subject.lcc | D731 | en |
dc.subject.lcc | PR | en |
dc.title | ‘Tale engineering’ : Agatha Christie and the aftermath of the Second World War | en |
dc.type | Journal article | en |
dc.contributor.institution | University of St Andrews. School of English | en |
dc.identifier.doi | https://doi.org/10.1177/0306197320945945 | |
dc.description.status | Peer reviewed | en |
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