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The undisputed "Queen of Crime," Dame Agatha Christie (1890-1976)
is the bestselling novelist of all time. As the creator of immortal
detectives Hercule Poirot and Jane Marple, she continues to
enthrall readers around the world and is drawing increasing
attention from scholars, historians, and critics. But Christie
wrote far beyond Poirot and Marple. A varied life including war
work, archaeology, and two very different marriages provided the
backdrop to a diverse body of work. This encyclopedic companion
summarizes and explores Christie's entire literary output,
including the detective fiction, plays, radio dramas, adaptations,
and her little-studied non-crime writing. It details all published
works and key themes and characters, as well as the people and
places that inspired them, and identifies a trove of uncollected
interviews, articles, and unpublished material, including details
that have never appeared in print. For the casual reader looking
for background information on their favorite mystery to the
dedicated scholar tracking down elusive new angles, this companion
will provide the most comprehensive and up-to-date information.
Agatha Christie has never been substantially considered as a war
writer, even though war is a constant presence in her writing. This
interdisciplinary collection of essays considers the effects of
these conflicts on the social and psychological textures of
Christie's detective fiction and other writings, demonstrating not
only Christie's textual navigation of her contemporary surroundings
and politics, but also the value of her voice as a popular fiction
writer reflecting popular concerns. Agatha Christie Goes to War
introduces the 'Queen of Crime' as an essential voice in the
discussion of war, warfare, and twentieth century literature.
Agatha Christie has never been substantially considered as a war
writer, even though war is a constant presence in her writing. This
interdisciplinary collection of essays considers the effects of
these conflicts on the social and psychological textures of
Christie's detective fiction and other writings, demonstrating not
only Christie's textual navigation of her contemporary surroundings
and politics, but also the value of her voice as a popular fiction
writer reflecting popular concerns. Agatha Christie Goes to War
introduces the 'Queen of Crime' as an essential voice in the
discussion of war, warfare, and twentieth century literature.
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?
When Agatha Christie died in 1976, she was the bestselling mystery
writer in history. This collection of new essays brings fresh
perspectives to Christie scholarship with new readings and
discussions of little-known aspects of her life, career and legacy.
The contributors explore her relationship with modernism, the
relevance of queer theory, television adaptations, issues with
translations, information behavior theory, feminist readings,
postcolonial tribute novels, celebrity culture and heritage cinema.
The final word is given to fans in an editorial that collates
testimonies from readers, collectors and enthusiasts.
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?
The first specifically academic companion to contemporary
scholarship on the work of Agatha Christie, this book includes
chapters by an international group of scholars writing on topics
and fields of study as various as ecocriticism and the
anthropocene, popular modernism, middlebrow fiction, queer theory,
feminism, crime and the state, and more. It addresses a broad
selection of Christie's crime novels, as well as her short stories,
literary novels written pseudonymously, and her own and others'
dramatic adaptations for television, film, and the stage, Featuring
unprecedented access to images and content held in Christie's
personal archive, as well as a Foreword from renowned crime fiction
writer Val McDermid, this is essential reading for anyone
interested in Christie's work and legacy.
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