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      Agatha Christie Goes to War book

      Edited ByRebecca Mills, J.C. Bernthal
      Edition 1st Edition
      First Published 2019
      eBook Published 28 November 2019
      Pub. Location New York
      Imprint Routledge
      DOI https://doi.org/10.4324/9780367855185
      Pages 184
      eBook ISBN 9780367855185
      Subjects Language & Literature
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      Mills, R., & Bernthal, J.C. (Eds.). (2019). Agatha Christie Goes to War (1st ed.). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780367855185

      ABSTRACT

      Agatha Christie has never been substantially considered as a war writer, even though war is a constant presence in her writing. This interdisciplinary collection of essays considers the effects of these conflicts on the social and psychological textures of Christie’s detective fiction and other writings, demonstrating not only Christie’s textual navigation of her contemporary surroundings and politics, but also the value of her voice as a popular fiction writer reflecting popular concerns. Agatha Christie Goes to War introduces the ‘Queen of Crime’ as an essential voice in the discussion of war, warfare, and twentieth century literature.

      TABLE OF CONTENTS

      chapter |10 pages

      Introduction

      ByJ.C. Bernthal, Rebecca Mills

      chapter 1|17 pages

      Mapping War, Planning Peace

      Miss Marple and the Evolving Village Space, 1930–1962
      BySarah Martin, Sally West

      chapter 2|18 pages

      Christie’s Wartime Hero

      Peacetime Killer
      ByPaula Bowles

      chapter 3|17 pages

      Writing through War

      Narrative Structure and Authority in Christie’s Second World War Novels
      ByBrittain Bright

      chapter 4|18 pages

      Taking on Hitler

      Agatha Christie’s Wartime Thrillers
      ByMerja Makinen

      chapter 5|14 pages

      “When She Eats She Will Die”

      Informal Meals and Social Change in Sad Cypress and “And Then There Were None”
      ByJ.C. Bernthal

      chapter 6|14 pages

      “A Worrying, Nerve-Wracked World”

      Agatha Christie’s Emergence as a Playwright during and after the Second World War
      ByJulius Green

      chapter 7|15 pages

      “There Are Things One Doesn’t Forget”

      The Second World War in “Three Blind Mice” and The Mousetrap
      ByFederica Crescentini

      chapter 8|13 pages

      Displaced Persons

      A Murder Is Announced and the Condition of Postwar England
      ByChristopher Yiannitsaros

      chapter 9|18 pages

      Detecting the Blitz

      Memory and Trauma in Christie’s Postwar Writings
      ByRebecca Mills

      chapter 10|12 pages

      “The Thrill When It Suddenly Went Pitch Black!”

      Blackout Cultures in A Murder Is Announced and The Mousetrap
      ByRoger Dalrymple
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