Queering Agatha Christie : revisiting the golden age of detective fiction /

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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Bernthal, J. C., 1989- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, 2016.
Colección:Crime files series.
Temas:
Christie, Agatha, > 1890-1976 > Criticism and interpretation.
Christie, Agatha, > 1890-1976
Cultural studies.
Fiction & related items.
Literary studies: from c 1900.
Literature: history & criticism.
Psychology of gender.
LITERARY CRITICISM > European > English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction
  • Chapter 1. Constructing Agatha Christie
  • Chapter 2. English Masculinity and its Others
  • Chapter 3. Femininity and Masquerade
  • Chapter 4. Queer Children, Crooked Houses
  • Chapter 5. Queering Christie on Television
  • Conclusion.

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