Kerry Schooley wrote:
> A friend of mine recently pointed out that cozies
are mannered novels that
> question the rights to authority of "superior",
titled classes. In their
> private lives, in their drawing rooms and on their
estates Lord & Lady
> Whatsis, Colonel Mustard etc. were as corrupt and
capable of murder as the
> "criminal" classes.
>
> Like hardboil, the cozy became popular between the
wars.
********* Did you agree with your friend? Another theory is
that they wrote about the upper classes because they thought
the lower classes beneath their interest. And I'm surprised
that cozies didn't come on until after WWI. It was my
understanding that hardboiled was in part a rebellion against
the upper class airs of the cozies. Mary Roberts Rinehart has
stuff out that's turn of the century, doesn't she? Maybe
that's not cozy. I know darn little about hardboiled and
almost nothing about cozies.
miker
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