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T1 Could women investigate crimes? Agatha Christie´s female detectives
A1 Fernández Cuadrado, Alicia
A2 Universidad de Valladolid. Facultad de Filosofía y Letras
K1 Detective fiction
K1 Agatha Christie
K1 Female detectives
K1 Crime fiction
K1 Professional detective
K1 Amateur detective
K1 Ficción Detectivesca
K1 Detectives femeninas
K1 5701.11 Enseñanza de Lenguas
AB Detective fiction has been represented in English literature by many different authors. One of the most famous and best-selling English authors of detective fiction was Agatha Christie (1890-1976), widely known as “The Queen of Crime and Mystery”. Christie did not only introduce male detectives in her novels and short stories but also females. But, to what extent have these characters of female detectives been studied and analyzed? This paper is mainly focused on an analysis of Christie´s female characters in the novels The Murder At The Vicarage (1929), The Seven Dials Mystery (1930) and N or M (1941). An analysis of Christie´s Miss Marple, Bundle Brent and Tuppence Beresford, not only as female detectives but as archetypes of detective fiction as well, will be provided. Fur- thermore, the paper will contain a comparison between the three female detectives, their different personalities in the novels and their different detection methods, both profes- sional and amateur.
YR 2021
FD 2021
LK https://uvadoc.uva.es/handle/10324/51475
UL https://uvadoc.uva.es/handle/10324/51475
LA eng
NO Departamento de Filología Inglesa
DS UVaDOC
RD 20-may-2024