Agatha Christie: Power and Illusion

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.

Publication Year: 2007
Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan UK
Format: H
Weight (Gram): 385