All Outputs (13)

“Parodied, pastiched, pilloried” and polished: Ngaio Marsh and Margery Allingham’s development of the gentleman detective (2024)
Thesis
Maddalena, H. “Parodied, pastiched, pilloried” and polished: Ngaio Marsh and Margery Allingham’s development of the gentleman detective. (Thesis). University of Hull. https://hull-repository.worktribe.com/output/4571280

This dissertation deepens and extends the modern field of study of “golden age” mystery authors Ngaio Marsh and Margery Allingham by closely examining the two writers’ individual development of the classical trope of the gentleman detective.
Since i... Read More about “Parodied, pastiched, pilloried” and polished: Ngaio Marsh and Margery Allingham’s development of the gentleman detective.

The immigrant experience: multiculturalism, religious identity, Thatcherism and the clash of generations in selected works by Hanif Kureishi. (2023)
Thesis
Islam, S. The immigrant experience: multiculturalism, religious identity, Thatcherism and the clash of generations in selected works by Hanif Kureishi. (Thesis). University of Hull. https://hull-repository.worktribe.com/output/4448505

This thesis, focusing on a wide range of texts by Hanif Kureishi, discusses postcolonial aspects of multiculturalism, racism, evolving religious identity, and the ways in which Thatcherism led to class rifts as well as entrepreneurial opportunities.... Read More about The immigrant experience: multiculturalism, religious identity, Thatcherism and the clash of generations in selected works by Hanif Kureishi..

Denise Mina’s Garnethill trilogy: Feminist crime fiction at the millennium (2016)
Book Chapter
Vanacker, S. (2016). Denise Mina’s Garnethill trilogy: Feminist crime fiction at the millennium. In K. Gelder (Ed.), New directions in popular fiction: Genre, distribution, reproduction (223-238). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-52346-4_11

Appearing in the late 1970s, feminist crime fiction arose out of a distinctive social context, the political, social and cultural sea change brought about by the second feminist wave. As Maureen Reddy suggests, ‘[f]eminist literary criticism, feminis... Read More about Denise Mina’s Garnethill trilogy: Feminist crime fiction at the millennium.

Burdekin's utopian visions : a study of four interwar texts (2015)
Thesis
Desforges, K. E. (2015). Burdekin's utopian visions : a study of four interwar texts. (Thesis). University of Hull. Retrieved from https://hull-repository.worktribe.com/output/4218737

This thesis is an exploration of four of Katharine Burdekin’s utopian texts from the interwar period. Each text offers a unique perspective on the genre. The earliest text considered is The Rebel Passion (1929), Burdekin’s first utopian text and the... Read More about Burdekin's utopian visions : a study of four interwar texts.

Sherlock's progress through history: feminist revisions of Holmes (2012)
Book Chapter
Vanacker, S. (2012). Sherlock's progress through history: feminist revisions of Holmes. In S. Vanacker, & C. Wynne (Eds.), Sherlock Holmes and Conan Doyle: multi-media afterlives (93-108). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137291561_7

In 1927 Arthur Conan Doyle published The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes , his fifth and final collection of short stories about the iconic detective.

"A desk is a dangerous place from which to watch the world": Britishness and foreignness in Le Carré's Karla trilogy (2012)
Book Chapter
Vanacker, S. (2012). "A desk is a dangerous place from which to watch the world": Britishness and foreignness in Le Carré's Karla trilogy. In J. Anderson, C. Miranda, & B. Pezzotti (Eds.), The Foreign in International Crime Writing: Transcultural Representations (22-34). Continuum

Culpa y Culpabilidad en los Personajes Femeninos de Agatha Christie (Guilt and Culpability in Christie's Women) (2011)
Book Chapter
Vanacker, S. (2011). Culpa y Culpabilidad en los Personajes Femeninos de Agatha Christie (Guilt and Culpability in Christie's Women). In Las damas negras: novela policiaca escrita por mujeres (41 - 68). Editorial Fundamentos

Double Dutch: image and identity in Dutch and Flemish crime fiction (2009)
Book Chapter
Vanacker, S. (2009). Double Dutch: image and identity in Dutch and Flemish crime fiction. In M. Krajenbrink, & K. M. Quinn (Eds.), Investigating identities : questions of identity in contemporary international crime fiction (215-228). Rodopi. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789042029170_016

The Family Plot in Recent Novels by P.D. James and Reginald Hill (2008)
Journal Article
Vanacker, S. (2008). The Family Plot in Recent Novels by P.D. James and Reginald Hill. Critical Survey, 20(1), 17 - 28. https://doi.org/10.3167/cs.2008.200103

The presence of women : modernist autobiography by Dorothy Richardson, Gertrude Stein and H.D. (1994)
Thesis
Vanacker, S. (1994). The presence of women : modernist autobiography by Dorothy Richardson, Gertrude Stein and H.D. (Thesis). University of Hull. Retrieved from https://hull-repository.worktribe.com/output/4209883

Reflecting on Miss Marple (1991)
Book
Shaw, M., & Vanacker, S. (1991). Reflecting on Miss Marple. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429452048

© 1991 Marion Shaw and Sabine Vanacker. All rights reserved. Originally published in 1991, Reflecting on Miss Marple looks at the incongruous combination of violence, murder and a sweet, white-haired old lady, and examines why this makes such a poten... Read More about Reflecting on Miss Marple.

Imagining a Global Village: Amsterdam in Janwillem van de Wetering's Detective Fiction
Book Chapter
Vanacker, S. Imagining a Global Village: Amsterdam in Janwillem van de Wetering's Detective Fiction. . The University of Hull

Sherlock Holmes and Conan Doyle: multi-media afterlives
Book
Vanacker, S., & Wynne, C. Sherlock Holmes and Conan Doyle: multi-media afterlives. The University of Hull

Co-edited collection with Sabine Vanacker