J. C Bernthal: Queering Agatha Christie

Cover: 9783319335322 | Queering Agatha Christie | J. C Bernthal | Buch | Crime Files | vii

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Beschreibung

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?

Über den Autor

J.C. Bernthal is a private researcher for a major crime writer. He holds a PhD from the University of Exeter, UK, where he taught English Literature, and is the editor of The Ageless Agatha Christie (2016).

Zusammenfassung

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 television adaptations of her work

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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.

Details

Erscheinungsjahr:	2016
Rubrik:	Literaturwissenschaft
Medium:	Buch
Reihe:	Crime Files
Inhalt:	vii 304 S.
ISBN-13:	9783319335322
ISBN-10:	3319335324
Sprache:	Englisch
Herstellernummer:	978-3-319-33532-2
Ausstattung / Beilage:	HC runder Rücken kaschiert
Einband:	Gebunden
Autor:	Bernthal, J. C
Auflage:	1st ed. 2016
Hersteller:	Springer Nature Switzerland Springer International Publishing Springer International Publishing AG Crime Files
Maße:	216 x 153 x 22 mm
Von/Mit:	J. C Bernthal
Erscheinungsdatum:	15.09.2016
Gewicht:	0,518 kg

Artikel-ID: 103864184