Social Issues in Agatha Christie's novels

Academic Paper from the year 2020 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: 1.3, University of Heidelberg (Anglistik), language: English, abstract: This literary analysis addresses social themes in the detective novels of the world-famous author Agatha Christie. In particular, the focus is on the social structures of Britain between the world wars and the 1950s. The issue of social matters has not been a widely depicted one in the literary analysis of Agatha Christie s work. Early getting fame and being characterized as Queen of Crime, of course it is the detective fiction which is in the foreground of Christie s work. However, social issues do even play a significant role in her work.