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SUMMARY:Dull Dogs and Englishmen: Replotting gender and genre in Agatha Chr
 istie’s Second World War Fiction
DESCRIPTION:Agatha Christie lived\, and wrote\, through two world wars\, a 
 depression\, the enfranchisement of women\, the rise of fascism\, the birt
 h of the welfare state\, the emergence of the Cold War\, the end of Empire
  and the swinging sixties. Her fiction inevitably bears the imprint of the
 se social and political transformations. In this talk I will explore one o
 f the most complex periods within Christie’s long career – the 1940s 
 – as a case study of the ways in which the tensions\, anxieties and desi
 res of a changing Britain found expression in her novels. After examining 
 larger trends in Christie’s writing – changes in the way she approache
 s both character and plot – I will focus on two particularly significant
  novels of the period\, Towards Zero (1944) and The Hollow (1945). Through
  these examples I trace changing cultural ideas about gender and nation\, 
 and consider the role of popular fictions in the postwar reconstruction of
  masculinity.
X-ALT-DESC:<p>Agatha Christie lived\, and wrote\, through two world wars\, 
 a depression\, the enfranchisement of women\, the rise of fascism\, the bi
 rth of the welfare state\, the emergence of the Cold War\, the end of Empi
 re and the swinging sixties. Her fiction inevitably bears the imprint of t
 hese social and political transformations. In this talk I will explore one
  of the most complex periods within Christie’s long career – the 1940s
  – as a case study of the ways in which the tensions\, anxieties and des
 ires of a changing Britain found expression in her novels. After examining
  larger trends in Christie’s writing – changes in the way she approach
 es both character and plot – I will focus on two particularly significan
 t novels of the period\, <em>Towards Zero </em>(1944) and <em>The Hollow</
 em> (1945). Through these examples I trace changing cultural ideas about g
 ender and nation\, and consider the role of popular fictions in the postwa
 r reconstruction of masculinity.</p>
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