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Queering Agatha Christie = revisiting the golden age of detective fiction /

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Queering Agatha Christie/ by J.C. Bernthal.
Reminder of title:	revisiting the golden age of detective fiction /
Author:	Bernthal, J.C.
Published:	Cham :Springer International Publishing : : 2016.,
Description:	vii, 304 p. :ill., digital ; : 24 cm.;
Contained By:	Springer eBooks
Subject:	Queer theory. -
Online resource:	http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-33533-9
ISBN:	9783319335339

Queering Agatha Christie = revisiting the golden age of detective fiction /
Bernthal, J.C.

Queering Agatha Christierevisiting the golden age of detective fiction /[electronic resource] :by J.C. Bernthal. - Cham :Springer International Publishing :2016. - vii, 304 p. :ill., digital ;24 cm. - Crime files. - Crime files..

Introduction -- Chapter 1. Constructing Agatha Christie -- Chapter 2. English Masculinity and its Others -- Chapter 3. Femininity and Masquerade -- Chapter 4. Queer Children, Crooked Houses -- Chapter 5. Queering Christie on Television -- Conclusion.

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?

ISBN: 9783319335339

Standard No.: 10.1007/978-3-319-33533-9doiSubjects--Personal Names:

803890
Christie, Agatha,
1890-1976.Murder on the Orient Express.Subjects--Topical Terms:

649994
Queer theory.

LC Class. No.: PR6005.H66

Dewey Class. No.: 823.912

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