JOURNAL ARTICLE

Sympathy for the Devil: Failed Catharsis and Universal Guilt in Agatha Christie’s Curtain.

  • Published In: Clues: A Journal of Detection (McFarland & Company), 2025, v. 43, n. 1. P. 25 1 of 3

  • Database: Humanities Source Ultimate 2 of 3

  • Authored By: Laurent, Emilie 3 of 3

Abstract

Reading Christie’s Curtain as a depiction of an ideological battle between good and evil, this essay analyzes the novel as a manipulation of the reader’s moral judgment that dissolves the genre’s over-optimistic promise of restoration to social order and generates anxiety about a possible guilt located within the reader’s self. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Additional Information

  • Source:Clues: A Journal of Detection (McFarland & Company). 2025/03, Vol. 43, Issue 1, p25
  • Document Type:Article
  • Subject Area:Literature and Writing
  • Publication Date:2025
  • ISSN:07424248
  • Accession Number:186938194
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