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Through the Magnifying Glass: Exploring British Society in the Golden Age Detective Fiction of Agatha Christie and Ngaio Marsh

机译:透过放大镜:黄金时代侦探小说《阿加莎·克里斯蒂(Agatha Christie)和恩加奥·马什(Ngaio Marsh)》中的英国社会

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This thesis uses the popular genre of detective fiction to explore the context of the heyday of the crime genre: the Golden Age. This sub-genre, best known for producing Agatha Christie, spanned the complicated history of Britain involving the Great Depression, two World Wars and huge changes to class structure. It is for these reasons that the Golden Age is such a pivotal period for changing notions of British identity. Through the very British Christie and the less well known New Zealander, Ngaio Marsh, expressions of national identity are explored as well as how the colonial fits in. Focusing heavily on the authors and their own personal experiences and views, this thesis is divided into four chapters to further break down how the Golden Age period affected its citizens and why this detective fiction held such a wide appeal. Chapter one explores gender roles and how Golden Age authors both conformed to them through their choice in detectives, yet also how they naturally resisted some through their own public image. Chapter two then examines the issue of class and how Golden Age detective fiction portrayed the changes. Contrary to popular criticism, Christie and Marsh were surprisingly progressive and forward thinking on this subject. Chapter three considers how both authors employed setting to emphasise these changes. Both Christie and Marsh used foreign settings to highlight British society and its flaws, and Marsh used her New Zealand settings to consider the relationship between Britain and her home. The final chapter will consider why Golden Age detective fiction was so popular: what was the appeal? For a period of violence and uncertainty, why were people drawn to crime fiction involving sometimes gruesome death? The appeal lay, and still does, in the puzzle: the game that diverted readers from their own problems. Golden Age fiction may have been highly formulaic and predictable, but it was also highly artificial and self-referential. This was a clever and diverting fiction that has been constantly underestimated by critics and deserves further study.
机译:本文使用流行的侦探小说类型来探索犯罪类型全盛时期的背景:黄金时代。这个子类型最出名的是制作阿加莎·克里斯蒂(Agatha Christie),跨越了英国的复杂历史,包括大萧条,两次世界大战和阶级结构的巨大变化。出于这些原因,黄金时代是改变英国身份观念的关键时期。通过英国的佳士得和鲜为人知的新西兰人Ngaio Marsh,人们探索了民族认同的表达方式以及殖民地的适应方式。本文主要关注作者及其个人经验和观点,共分为四部分这些章节进一步细分了“黄金时代”如何影响其公民以及为什么这种侦探小说如此受欢迎。第一章探讨了性别角色,以及《黄金时代》的作者们如何通过在侦探中的选择来符合性别角色,以及他们如何自然地通过自己的公共形象来抵抗某些角色。然后,第二章研究班级问题以及黄金时代的侦探小说如何描述这些变化。与流行的批评相反,克里斯蒂和马什在这个问题上出人意料地具有进步和前瞻性的思想。第三章考虑了两位作者如何利用环境来强调这些变化。克里斯蒂(Christie)和马什(Marsh)都使用外国环境来突出英国社会及其缺陷,而马什(Marsh)则使用她的新西兰环境来考虑英国与其家庭之间的关系。最后一章将考虑为何黄金时代的侦探小说如此受欢迎:这有什么吸引力?在一段充满暴力和不确定性的时期,为什么人们被犯罪小说所吸引,有时涉及到可怕的死亡?吸引力始终困扰着游戏:使读者摆脱他们自己的问题的游戏。黄金时代的小说可能是高度公式化和可预测的,但它也是高度人为和自我参照的。这是一个巧妙而分流的小说,评论家一直低估它,值得进一步研究。

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