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dc.contributor.authorPlain, Gill
dc.date.accessioned2020-11-06T10:30:03Z
dc.date.available2020-11-06T10:30:03Z
dc.date.issued2020-11-01
dc.identifier264078933
dc.identifierf10fe489-d83c-432d-bddd-e78f1a387530
dc.identifier85092904921
dc.identifier000580601700004
dc.identifier.citationPlain , 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/10.1177/0306197320945945en
dc.identifier.issn0306-1973
dc.identifier.otherORCID: /0000-0002-3387-4850/work/82501151
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10023/20915
dc.description.abstractThe ‘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.extent21
dc.format.extent308070
dc.language.isoeng
dc.relation.ispartofLiterature and Historyen
dc.subjectAgatha Christieen
dc.subjectCrime fictionen
dc.subjectSecond World Waren
dc.subjectPostwaren
dc.subjectCold Waren
dc.subjectGenderen
dc.subjectD731 World War IIen
dc.subjectPR English literatureen
dc.subjectT-NDASen
dc.subjectBDCen
dc.subjectR2Cen
dc.subjectSDG 16 - Peace, Justice and Strong Institutionsen
dc.subject.lccD731en
dc.subject.lccPRen
dc.title‘Tale engineering’ : Agatha Christie and the aftermath of the Second World Waren
dc.typeJournal articleen
dc.contributor.institutionUniversity of St Andrews. School of Englishen
dc.identifier.doi10.1177/0306197320945945
dc.description.statusPeer revieweden


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