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Witchcraft And Paganism In Women's Midcentury Detective Fiction (2022)
Book
Witchcraft and paganism exert an insistent pressure from the margins of midcentury British detective fiction. This Element investigates the appearance of witchcraft and paganism in the novels of four of the most popular female detective authors of th... Read More about Witchcraft And Paganism In Women's Midcentury Detective Fiction.
Midcentury Jacobeans: Agatha Christie, Ngaio Marsh, P.D. James and "The Duchess of Malfi" (2020)
Journal Article
“Three Ordinary, Normal Old Women”: Agatha Christie’s Uses of Shakespeare (2018)
Journal Article
This article draws on recent scholarship on Shakespearean allusions and crime fiction to develop an in-depth exploration of Agatha Christie's quotations from the playwright. These quotations do not tend to point to the murderer or give clues to the p... Read More about “Three Ordinary, Normal Old Women”: Agatha Christie’s Uses of Shakespeare.
“My Eucharist to the people of District 11”:bread, sacrifice and thanksgiving in The Hunger Games (2017)
Journal Article
The imagery of bread in The Hunger Games provides an opportunity to read the novel within a Christian tradition alert to themes of suffering, sacrifice and solidarity. This article examines how the novel “re-enchants” bread as both a site of ideolog... Read More about “My Eucharist to the people of District 11”:bread, sacrifice and thanksgiving in The Hunger Games.