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...fiction: 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...

...is a topic for study. Science, clearly, is an area where a lot of thought is directed. So why is it science fiction is often shunned as unworthy as a subject for academic enquiry?...[Weeping angel from Doctor Who] It's a crying shame that Sci Fi is often sidelined It is surprising to see what kinds of disciplinary boundaries a field so inherently interdisciplinary as...

...fiction is research and this idea that you need to get things right. As somebody who was interested in history to start off with, did that fascinate you more than daunt you? Do you like the fact that you have to familiarise yourself with certain things before you can begin the story, or does it not work that way for you? EMMA DARWIN: I’m equally fascinated and...