Queering Agatha Christie - Revisiting the Golden Age of Detective Fiction (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2016)

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?

General

Imprint:	Springer International Publishing AG
Country of origin:	Switzerland
Series:	Crime Files
Release date:	September 2016
First published:	2016
Authors:	J. C. Bernthal
Dimensions:	210 x 148 x 22mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	304
Edition:	1st ed. 2016
ISBN-13:	978-3-319-33532-2
Categories:	Books > Fiction > General & literary fiction > Modern fiction
LSN:	3-319-33532-4
Barcode:	9783319335322

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