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From Agatha Christie to Ruth Rendell

British Women Writers in Detective and Crime Fiction

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  • © 2001

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Authors:
  1. Susan Rowland

    1. University of Greenwich, UK

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Part of the book series: Crime Files (CF)

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Table of contents (8 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-x
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  2. Lives of Crime

    • Susan Rowland
    Pages 1-14

  3. Gendering the Genre

    • Susan Rowland
    Pages 15-38

  4. Social Negotiations: Class, Crime and Power

    • Susan Rowland
    Pages 39-61

  5. Lands of Hope and Glory? Englishness, Race and Colonialism

    • Susan Rowland
    Pages 62-85

  6. Detecting Psychoanalysis: Readers, Criminals and Narrative

    • Susan Rowland
    Pages 86-109

  7. Gothic Crimes: A Literature of Terror and Horror

    • Susan Rowland
    Pages 110-134

  8. The Spirits of Detection

    • Susan Rowland
    Pages 135-156

  9. Feminism Is Criminal

    • Susan Rowland
    Pages 157-180

  10. Back Matter

    Pages 181-222
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About this book

From Agatha Christie to Ruth Rendell is the first book to consider seriously the hugely popular and influential works of Agatha Christie, Dorothy L.Sayers, Margery Allingham, Ngaio Marsh, P.D. James and Ruth Rendell/Barbara Vine. Providing studies of forty-two 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.

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'Traditionally crime fiction ends with identifying the criminal and thus re-establishing the social and moral order. However Susan demonstrates that the six writers are concerned with replotting the process of crime novels in ways which affect the reading process.' - Christopher Dean, The Dorothy L. Sayers Society Newsletter

Authors and Affiliations

  • University of Greenwich, UK

    Susan Rowland

About the author

SUSAN ROWLAND is a Senior Lecturer in English at the University of Greenwich. She is also author of C.G.Jung and Literary Theory: The Challenge from Fiction (1999). She has published upon the work of Michèle Roberts, Doris Lessing and Margaret Attwood, among others.

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