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Queering Agatha Christie : revisiting the golden age of detective fiction
- 作者： Bernthal, J.C., author.
- 其他作者：
- 其他題名：
- Crime files.
- 出版： Cham : Springer International Publishing :Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan
- 叢書名： Crime files
- 主題： Christie, Agatha, 1890-1976. , Queer theory. , Sex role in literature. , Literature. , Twentieth-Century Literature. , Fiction. , British and Irish Literature. , British Culture. , Gender Studies.
- ISBN： 9783319335339 (electronic bk.) 、 9783319335322 (paper)
- 資料類型: 電子書
- 內容註: 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.
- 摘要註: 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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- 系統號： 005369360 | 機讀編目格式
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