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Agatha Christie and the Guilty Pleasure of Poison (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2022)
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Agatha Christie and the Guilty Pleasure of Poison (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2022)
Series: Crime Files
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Agatha Christie and the Guilty Pleasure of Poison examines
Christie's female poisoners in the context of Christie's own
experience in pharmacy and of detective fiction. In doing so, it
uncovers an overlooked dynamic in which female poisoners deliver
well-deserved comeuppance for gendered and classed wrongdoing
ordinarily accepted in everyday life. While critics have long
recognized male outlaws, like Robin Hood, who use crime to oppose a
corrupt system, this book contends that female outlaws - witches
and poisoners - offer a similar heritage of empowered femininity.
Far from cozy and formulaic, Agatha Christie's outlaw poisoners
offer readers the surprising pleasures of comeuppance, and they set
the stage for contemporary detective fiction writers, more recent
films depicting poisoning as empowering, and even poison gardens,
which are tourist destinations that offer visitors the guilty
pleasure of poison.
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