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Murdering Miss Marple
Essays on Gender and Sexuality in the New Golden Age of Women's Crime Fiction
Taschenbuch von Julie H. Kim
Sprache: Englisch

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During the interwar "golden age" of British detective fiction, women writers like Dorothy L. Sayers and Agatha Christie reigned, but their work remains tame compared to today's crime novels. Elements of sexuality and gender, including soft porn and sexual psychopathy, pervade contemporary detective fiction. The 10 essays in this collection explore issues of gender and sexuality in crime writing by women from 1985 to 2011, surveying works about girl sleuths, parodies, hard-boiled detective fiction, police procedurals, and recent serial killer series. They examine the relationship between genre and gender and explore how later works enter into a field of "post-feminism." Most importantly, this volume demonstrates how popular women writers of the last three decades have reconceptualized what it means to be a female detective.
During the interwar "golden age" of British detective fiction, women writers like Dorothy L. Sayers and Agatha Christie reigned, but their work remains tame compared to today's crime novels. Elements of sexuality and gender, including soft porn and sexual psychopathy, pervade contemporary detective fiction. The 10 essays in this collection explore issues of gender and sexuality in crime writing by women from 1985 to 2011, surveying works about girl sleuths, parodies, hard-boiled detective fiction, police procedurals, and recent serial killer series. They examine the relationship between genre and gender and explore how later works enter into a field of "post-feminism." Most importantly, this volume demonstrates how popular women writers of the last three decades have reconceptualized what it means to be a female detective.
Über den Autor
Julie H. Kim is a professor of English at Northeastern Illinois University in Chicago. She teaches and publishes in early modern British and contemporary British and American literatures.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Table of Contents

Introduction: Re-Imagining Gender and Sexuality in Women's Crime Fiction

JULIE H. KIM

Nancy Drew vs. Nancy Clue: Girl Sleuths Discover Their Sexualities

1. Configuring Space and Sexuality: Nancy Drew Enters The Bluebeard Room

MICHAEL G. CORNELIUS

2. Not-So-Nice, Indeed: Mabel Maney, Girl Detectives, and Sexual Awakenings

JENNIFER MITCHELL

Long Ago, in Places Far Away: Gender Subversion in Detective Fiction Period Pieces

3. Repopulating the Margins: Rhys Bowen's Treatment of Gender, History, and Power

KELLEY WEZNER

4. Assuming Identities: Strategies of Drag in Laurie R. King's Mary Russell Series

MEGAN HOFFMAN

Genre vs. Gender, Sexuality, Race, and Class

5. Genre-Bending in Neely's Blanche White Series: Testing the Limits of Crime Fiction

BETSY YOUNG

6. "W" Is for Woman: Deconstructing the Private Dick in Sue Grafton's Alphabet Series

HEATH A. DIEHL

Language and Gender, Narrative and Sexuality: Rhetorics of Identity and Desire

7. Melancholia, Narrative Objectivity and the Eyewitness: The Role of the Narrator in Barbara Vine's A Dark-Adapted Eye and The Minotaur

ANDREW HOCK SOON NG

8. Postfeminism(s) and Authority in Contemporary Glasgow Police Procedurals

PETER CLANDFIELD

(De)constructed Body and Sexual Psychopathy: Serial Killing of Gender Binaries

9. Beyond Gender and Sexuality: The Serial Killers of Val McDermid

NEIL MCCAW

10. Neither Victim nor Vixen: Reading the Female Detective's Receding Body and Textual Violence

WINTER S. ELLIOTT

About the Contributors
Index
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2012
Genre: Allgemeine Lexika, Importe
Rubrik: Literaturwissenschaft
Medium: Taschenbuch
ISBN-13: 9780786463312
ISBN-10: 0786463317
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Redaktion: Kim, Julie H.
Hersteller: McFarland
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Produktsicherheitsverantwortliche/r, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße: 229 x 152 x 15 mm
Von/Mit: Julie H. Kim
Erscheinungsdatum: 07.02.2012
Gewicht: 0,405 kg
Artikel-ID: 129308773
Über den Autor
Julie H. Kim is a professor of English at Northeastern Illinois University in Chicago. She teaches and publishes in early modern British and contemporary British and American literatures.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Table of Contents

Introduction: Re-Imagining Gender and Sexuality in Women's Crime Fiction

JULIE H. KIM

Nancy Drew vs. Nancy Clue: Girl Sleuths Discover Their Sexualities

1. Configuring Space and Sexuality: Nancy Drew Enters The Bluebeard Room

MICHAEL G. CORNELIUS

2. Not-So-Nice, Indeed: Mabel Maney, Girl Detectives, and Sexual Awakenings

JENNIFER MITCHELL

Long Ago, in Places Far Away: Gender Subversion in Detective Fiction Period Pieces

3. Repopulating the Margins: Rhys Bowen's Treatment of Gender, History, and Power

KELLEY WEZNER

4. Assuming Identities: Strategies of Drag in Laurie R. King's Mary Russell Series

MEGAN HOFFMAN

Genre vs. Gender, Sexuality, Race, and Class

5. Genre-Bending in Neely's Blanche White Series: Testing the Limits of Crime Fiction

BETSY YOUNG

6. "W" Is for Woman: Deconstructing the Private Dick in Sue Grafton's Alphabet Series

HEATH A. DIEHL

Language and Gender, Narrative and Sexuality: Rhetorics of Identity and Desire

7. Melancholia, Narrative Objectivity and the Eyewitness: The Role of the Narrator in Barbara Vine's A Dark-Adapted Eye and The Minotaur

ANDREW HOCK SOON NG

8. Postfeminism(s) and Authority in Contemporary Glasgow Police Procedurals

PETER CLANDFIELD

(De)constructed Body and Sexual Psychopathy: Serial Killing of Gender Binaries

9. Beyond Gender and Sexuality: The Serial Killers of Val McDermid

NEIL MCCAW

10. Neither Victim nor Vixen: Reading the Female Detective's Receding Body and Textual Violence

WINTER S. ELLIOTT

About the Contributors
Index
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2012
Genre: Allgemeine Lexika, Importe
Rubrik: Literaturwissenschaft
Medium: Taschenbuch
ISBN-13: 9780786463312
ISBN-10: 0786463317
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Redaktion: Kim, Julie H.
Hersteller: McFarland
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Produktsicherheitsverantwortliche/r, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße: 229 x 152 x 15 mm
Von/Mit: Julie H. Kim
Erscheinungsdatum: 07.02.2012
Gewicht: 0,405 kg
Artikel-ID: 129308773
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