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Agatha Christie: Power and Illusion

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  • © 2007

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  1. R. A. York
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Part of the book series: Crime Files (CF)

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Table of contents (13 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-viii
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  2. Introduction

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    Pages 1-8

  3. The Spectacle of Death

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    Pages 9-21

  4. The Wrong Angle

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    Pages 22-34

  5. Actors and Imposters

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    Pages 35-47

  6. Human Nature

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    Pages 48-59

  7. The Self and the Other

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    Pages 60-73

  8. Change and Decay

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    Pages 74-86

  9. The War of Good and Evil

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    Pages 87-99

  10. Clues

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    Pages 100-113

  11. The Myth of Crime

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    Pages 114-127

  12. The Real and the Unreal

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    Pages 128-140

  13. The Culture

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    Pages 141-154

  14. Curtain: A Conclusion

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    Pages 155-165

  15. Back Matter

    Pages 166-175
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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.

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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.

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