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Queering Agatha Christie: Revisiting the Golden Age of Detective Fiction
James Bernthal
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Description for Queering Agatha Christie: Revisiting the Golden Age of Detective Fiction
Hardback. Series: Crime Files. Num Pages: 311 pages, biography. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 162 x 217 x 22. Weight in Grams: 528.
This book is the first fully theorized queer reading of a Golden Age British crime writer. Agatha Christie was the most commercially successful novelist of the twentieth century, and her fiction remains popular. She created such memorable characters as Hercule Poirot and Jane Marple, and has become synonymous with a nostalgic, conservative tradition of crime fiction. J.C. Bernthal reads Christie through the lens of queer theory, uncovering a playful, alert, and subversive social commentary. After considering Christie's emergence in a commercial market hostile to her sex, in Queering Agatha Christie Bernthal explores homophobic stereotypes, gender performativity, queer children, and masquerade ... Read more
This book is the first fully theorized queer reading of a Golden Age British crime writer. Agatha Christie was the most commercially successful novelist of the twentieth century, and her fiction remains popular. She created such memorable characters as Hercule Poirot and Jane Marple, and has become synonymous with a nostalgic, conservative tradition of crime fiction. J.C. Bernthal reads Christie through the lens of queer theory, uncovering a playful, alert, and subversive social commentary. After considering Christie's emergence in a commercial market hostile to her sex, in Queering Agatha Christie Bernthal explores homophobic stereotypes, gender performativity, queer children, and masquerade ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Springer International Publishing AG
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Series
Crime Files
Condition
New
Number of Pages
304
Place of Publication
Cham, Switzerland
ISBN
9783319335322
SKU
V9783319335322
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Ref
99-15
About James Bernthal
J.C. Bernthal is a private researcher for a major crime writer. He holds a PhD from the University of Exeter, UK, where he taught English Literature, and is the editor of The Ageless Agatha Christie (2016).
Reviews for Queering Agatha Christie: Revisiting the Golden Age of Detective Fiction
Queering Agatha Christie is the latest of many works subjecting Christie's considerable uvre to new readings. ... this volume is a timely, rich, immensely suggestive, and ... wonderfully well-written reassessment of Agatha Christie and her work. (Alyce von Rothkirchi, Modern Language Review, Vol. 112, October, 2017)