Agatha Christie - Power and Illusion

Informationen zum Autor R.A YORK was educated at Emmanuel College Cambridge, UK and University College London. In 1969 he joined the University of Ulster, UK, eventually becoming Emeritus Professor of European Literature. He has published on European, British and American literature, with a special interest in literary form and language. Klappentext This study shows how she sought to reconcile her attachment to the Victorian past with her recognition of a new society that undermined established order and in doing so gave more opportunities to women, confused class-boundaries, extended tolerance, allowed the cult of pleasure and self-assertion and revealed the ambiguities of respectability. Zusammenfassung This study shows how she sought to reconcile her attachment to the Victorian past with her recognition of a new society that undermined established order and in doing so gave more opportunities to women! confused class-boundaries! extended tolerance! allowed the cult of pleasure and self-assertion and revealed the ambiguities of respectability. Inhaltsverzeichnis Ackowledgements Introduction The spectacle of death The wrong angle Actors and imposters Human nature The self and the other Change and decay The war of good and evil Clues The myth of crime The real and the unreal The culture Curtain: a conclusion Bibliography Index

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Ackowledgements Introduction The spectacle of death The wrong angle Actors and imposters Human nature The self and the other Change and decay The war of good and evil Clues The myth of crime The real and the unreal The culture Curtain: a conclusion Bibliography Index

Product details

• Authors: R a York, R. York, R. A. York, R.A. York, Richard York, YORK R A
• Publisher: Palgrave UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.07.2007
• EAN: 9780230525016
• ISBN: 978-0-230-52501-6
• No. of pages: 183
• Series: Crime Files; Crime Files
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Essays, feuilletons, literary criticism, interviews; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; B, Fiction & related items, Fiction, Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900, Literature: history & criticism, European Literature, Literature, Modern—19th century, Nineteenth-Century Literature, Literature, Modern—20th century, Twentieth-Century Literature, British literature, British and Irish Literature, Fiction Literature, Palgrave Literature & Performing Arts Collection