Agatha Christie Goes to War (eBook, PDF)

Redaktion: Mills, Rebecca; Bernthal, J. C.

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Agatha Christie has never been substantially considered as a war writer, though war is a constant presence in her writing. This interdisciplinary collection of essays introduces the 'Queen of Crime' as an essential voice in the discussion of war, warfare, and twentieth century literature.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 184
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. November 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000740585
• Artikelnr.: 58112632

Autorenporträt

Dr. Rebecca Mills is a lecturer at Bournemouth University Dr James Bernthal-Hooker is a guest lecturer at the University of Cambridge

Inhaltsangabe

J.C. Bernthal and Rebecca Mills, Introduction
1. Sarah Martin and Sally West, Mapping War, Planning Peace: Miss Marple
and the Evolving Village Space, 1930-1962
2. Paula Bowles, Christie's Wartime Hero: Peacetime Killer
3. Brittain Bright, Writing Through War: Narrative Structure and
Authority in Christie's Second World War Novels
4. Merja Makinen, Taking on Hitler: Agatha Christie's Wartime Thrillers
5. J.C. Bernthal, "When She Eats She Will Die": Informal Meals and
Social Change in Sad Cypress and "And Then There Were None"
6. Julius Green, "A Worrying, Nerve-Wracked World": Agatha Christie's
Emergence as a Playwright During and after the Second World War
7. Federica Crescentini, "There are Things One Doesn't Forget": The
Second World War in "Three Blind Mice" and The Mousetrap
8. Christopher Yiannitsaros, Displaced Persons: A Murder is Announced
and the Condition of Post-War England
9. Rebecca Mills, Detecting the Blitz: Trauma and Memory in Christie's
Post-War Writings
10. Roger Dalrymple, "The Thrill When it Suddenly Went Pitch Black!":
Blackout Cultures in A Murder is Announced and The Mousetrap