Reflecting on Miss Marple

ISBN-13: 9781138322479 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 130 str.

Marion Shaw; Sabine Vanacker

Opis

Originally published in 1991, Reflecting on Miss Marple is an astute and engaging account which reveals Miss Marple as a feminist heroine, triumphantly able to exploit contemporary prejudices against unmarried women in order to solve her case.

 

Spis treści

Important Note  List of Abbreviations  Agatha Christie: Some Biographical Notes  Introduction  1. Women Writers and the Golden Age of Detective Fiction  2. Miss Marple the Spinster  3. Two Gills of Picked Shrimps: Miss Marple as Detective  4. Miss Marple’s Afterlife  Appendix: List of Novels Mentioned in Chapter Four  Bibliography and References

O autorze

Marion Shaw is head of the English department at the University of Hull. She lives in Kingston-on-Soar in Nottinghamshire.