| 书目名称 | Queering Agatha Christie | | 副标题 | Revisiting the Golde | | 编辑 | J.C Bernthal | | 视频video | | | 概述 | Offers the first book-length queer reading of Christie‘s work.Expands queer notions of archive and canonicity.Considers Christie’s reputation in the twenty-first century by exploring nostalgic televis | | 丛书名称 | Crime Files | | 图书封面 |  | | 描述 | 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? | | 出版日期 | Book 2016 | | 关键词 | popular crime fiction; Detective Fiction; popular literature; queer studies; Gender; Sexuality; homosexual | | 版次 | 1 | | doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-33533-9 | | isbn_softcover | 978-3-319-81538-1 | | isbn_ebook | 978-3-319-33533-9Series ISSN 2947-8340 Series E-ISSN 2947-8359 | | issn_series | 2947-8340 | | copyright | The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerl |
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