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Witchcraft and paganism in midcentury women's detective fiction
- Title
- Witchcraft and paganism in midcentury women's detective fiction / Jem Bloomfield.
- Author
- Bloomfield, Jem
- Publication
- Cambridge ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2022.
- ©2022
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Details
- Description
- 66 pages; 23 cm.
- Summary
- "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 the era: Agatha Christie, Margery Allingham, Ngaio Marsh and Gladys Mitchell. The author approaches the theme of witchcraft and paganism not simply as a matter of content but as an influence which shapes the narrative and its possibilities. The 'witchy' detective novel, as the author calls it, brings together the conventions of Golden Age fiction with the images and enchantments of witchcraft and paganism to produce a hitherto unstudied mode of detective fiction in the midcentury."--Back cover.
- Series Statement
- Cambridge elements. Elements in magic, 2732-4079
- Uniform Title
- Cambridge elements. Elements in magic.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [65]-66).
- Contents
- Introduction -- 1. Agatha Christie -- 2. Margery Allingham -- 3. Ngaio Marsh -- 4. Gladys Mitchell -- Afterword -- Bibliography.
- Call Number
- JFE 22-5199
- ISBN
- 9781009073998
- 1009073990
- OCLC
- 1305010136
- Author
- Bloomfield, Jem, author.
- Title
- Witchcraft and paganism in midcentury women's detective fiction / Jem Bloomfield.
- Publisher
- Cambridge ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2022.
- Copyright Date
- ©2022
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Series
- Cambridge elements. Elements in magic, 2732-4079Cambridge elements. Elements in magic.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [65]-66).
- Chronological Term
- 1900-1999
- Other Form:
- Online version: Bloomfield, Jem. Witchcraft and paganism in midcentury women's detective fiction. Cambridge ; New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 2022 9781009072878 (OCoLC)1334604573
- Research Call Number
- JFE 22-5199