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Queering Agatha Christie : Revisiting the Golden Age of Detective Fiction

Queering Agatha Christie : Revisiting the Golden Age of Detective Fiction - Crime Files

Softcover reprint of the original 1st Edition 2016

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Publisher's Synopsis

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 in key texts published between 1920 and 1952. Christie engaged with debates around human identity in a unique historical period affected by two world wars. The final chapter considers twenty-first century Poirot and Marple adaptations, with visible LGBT characters, and poses the question: might the books be queerer?

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Book information

ISBN: 9783319815381
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan
Pub date:
Edition: Softcover reprint of the original 1st Edition 2016
Language: English
Number of pages: 304
Weight: 4049g
Height: 210mm
Width: 148mm
Spine width: 17mm