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Veröffentlichung:	April 2018
Genre:	Sprache
	B / British and Irish Literature / British Culture / British literature / Cultural Studies / Ethnology—Europe / Fiction / Fiction & related items / Fiction Literature / Gender expression / Gender Studies / Literature / Literature# history & criticism / Literature, Cultural and Media Studies / Literature, Modern—20th century / Psychology of gender / Psychology of Gender and Sexuality / Sex (Psychology) / Twentieth-Century Literature
ISBN:	9783319815381
EAN-Code:	9783319815381
Verlag:	Springer Nature EN
Einband:	Kartoniert
Sprache:	English
Serie:	Crime Files
Dimensionen:	H 210 mm / B 148 mm / D
Gewicht:	4049 gr
Seiten:	304
Zus. Info:	Previously published in hardcover
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Inhalt:

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?