Re: RARA-AVIS: World War 1

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Subject: Re: RARA-AVIS: World War 1
From: "DOUGLAS GREENE" <dgg100f@hamlet.bal.odu.edu>
Date: Sun, 9 Feb 1997 09:23:11 EST
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> I'm sure Doug Greene is right, but wonder if the historical detections 
> of John Dickson Carr aren't an exception to his stability thesis, since 
> some at least revolve around a flickering back and forth between the safe 
> present and the dangerous past.  As to the destabilising effects of the 
> Great War, might these not be exemplified by such characters as Bulldog 
> Drummond and his gang of unsettled proto-fascists?


I would argue that Bulldog Drummond does represent a hankering after 
the stability of the past, while Spade and Marlower have a different 
agenda.

Except for the early and pseudonymous DEVIL KINSMERE, Carr's 
historicals were written after WW2,  when he hated what had happened 
in the modern  world.  In fact, during most of his,life, he was en 
garde against modernism.

Doug
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