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# Learning outcomes

After studying this course, you should be able to:

- understand some key aspects of Agatha Christie’s writing
- analyse ‘golden age’ British detective fiction and appreciate its formal and generic features
- contextualise the rise of detective fiction against literary modernism and new commercial developments in middlebrow writing
- reflect on the popularity and continuing adaptation of detective fiction and crime writing.
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