Book Description
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.
About the Author
Susan Rowland is Senior Lecturer in English, University of Greenwich.
From Agatha Christie to Ruth Rendell: British Women Writers in Detective and Crime Fiction FROM THE PUBLISHER
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.
Author Biography: Susan Rowland is Senior Lecturer in English, University of Greenwich.
FROM THE CRITICS
Booknews
Herself writing in a spare, factual style fitting of the detectives she critiques, Rowland (English, U. of Greenwich, England) surveys women crime writers, exploring the elements of Gothic horror, gender, psychoanalysis, and colonialism contained within their works. She considers 42 novels by Agatha Christie, Dorothy Sayers, Ngaio Marsh, Margery Allingham, P.D. James, and Ruth Rendell/Barbara Vine in comparative chapters divided by theme. Appendices contain lists of the authors' complete works and interviews with P.D. James and Ruth Rendell/Barbara Vine. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
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