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21 lug 2021 · An area where we may come to a little more accuracy and general agreement about its parameters is the Golden Age of detective fiction. Most people glibly define it as books and stories written between the two world wars, and point to the first Agatha Christie novel, The Mysterious Affair at Styles (1920) as the benchmark novel.
The Golden Age of Science Fiction, often identified in the United States as the years 1938–1946, [1] was a period in which a number of foundational works of science fiction literature appeared. In the history of science fiction, the Golden Age follows the "pulp era" of the 1920s and 1930s, and precedes New Wave science fiction of the 1960s ...
Alongside important male contemporaries – particularly G. K. Chesterton (the Father Brown stories) and Nicholas Blake (the Nigel Strangeways series) – the golden age of detective fiction was defined in many ways by the work of four women, dubbed the ‘Queens of Crime’: Margery Allingham (1904–1966), Dorothy L. Sayers (1893–1957), Ngaio Marsh (1895–1982) and, of course, Christie ...
The Golden Age of Detective Fiction is generally regarded as spanning the years between 1920 and 1939, although Howard Haycraft, who is credited with introducing the phrase insisted the golden age covered only the 1920s. The golden age is often spoken about in reverential terms, and for good reason, as it saw Agatha Christie introduce Hercule ...
15 giu 2020 · Dublin-born Freeman Wills Crofts played a major role in the development of detective fiction during its Golden Age, a period defined mainly by British authors in the years between the two world wars. With his successful debut, The Cask (1920), Crofts was front and center of this group, many of whom are still celebrated today.
12 ott 2022 · Little wonder the period came to be known as The Golden Age of Detective Fiction. The shockwaves of the First World War reverberated through the United Kingdom long after the conflict had been brought to a close in 1918. In the previous four years, a million British servicemen had lost their lives. Confidence in the ruling class had been ...
30 apr 2023 · The 1920s and 30s mark the era of Golden-Age fiction, which saw the prolific publication of classic murder mysteries and detective novels, most of a similar style and genre. Agatha Christie, Arthur Conan Doyle, Dorothy L. Sayers are only a few of the many well-known detective writers of the time.
