Crime Files

British Women Writers in Detective and Crime Fiction

By: S. Rowland

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Hardcover | 19 December 2000 | Edition Number 1

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"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, Nag Marsh, P.D. James and Ruth Rendell/Barbara Vine. Providing studies of 42 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

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Preface	p. viii
Lives of Crime	p. 1
Gendering the Genre	p. 15
Social Negotiations: Class, Crime and Power	p. 39
Lands of Hope and Glory? Englishness, Race and Colonialism	p. 62
Detecting Psychoanalysis: Readers, Criminals and Narrative	p. 86
Gothic Crimes: A Literature of Terror and Horror	p. 110
The Spirits of Detection	p. 135
Feminism Is Criminal	p. 157
The Complete Detective and Crime Novels of the Six Authors	p. 181
A Conversation with Ruth Rendell/Barbara Vine	p. 192
A Conversation with P.D. James	p. 196
Notes	p. 199
Select Bibliography	p. 214
Index	p. 217
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