03455nam 22006735 450 991062431040332120230810180244.09783031160004(electronic bk.)978303115999210.1007/978-3-031-16000-4(MiAaPQ)EBC7135377(Au-PeEL)EBL7135377(CKB)25315246100041(DE-He213)978-3-031-16000-4(EXLCZ)992531524610004120221112d2022 u| 0engurcnu||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierAgatha Christie and the Guilty Pleasure of Poison /by Sylvia A. Pamboukian1st ed. 2022.Cham :Springer International Publishing :Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan,2022.1 online resource (230 pages)Crime Files,2947-8359Print version: Pamboukian, Sylvia A. Agatha Christie and the Guilty Pleasure of Poison Cham : Springer International Publishing AG,c2023 9783031159992 Includes bibliographical references and index.1. Agatha Christie, Poison, and Crime -- 2. Agatha Christie and Pharmacy -- 3. Dying Game: Unrepentant Outlaws in Christie and Doyle -- 4. Cheering Bystanders in Christie and Sayers -- 5. The Revenger’s Comeuppance in Christie and Jackson -- 6. The Poisoner’s Afterlives -- 7. Readers and the Poison Garden.Agatha Christie and the Guilty Pleasure of Poison examines Christie’s female poisoners in the context of Christie’s own experience in pharmacy and of detective fiction. In doing so, it uncovers an overlooked dynamic in which female poisoners deliver well-deserved comeuppance for gendered and classed wrongdoing ordinarily accepted in everyday life. While critics have long recognized male outlaws, like Robin Hood, who use crime to oppose a corrupt system, this book contends that female outlaws – witches and poisoners – offer a similar heritage of empowered femininity. Far from cozy and formulaic, Agatha Christie’s outlaw poisoners offer readers the surprising pleasures of comeuppance, and they set the stage for contemporary detective fiction writers, more recent films depicting poisoning as empowering, and even poison gardens, which are tourist destinations that offer visitors the guilty pleasure of poison.Crime Files,2947-8359Literature, Modern20th centuryFictionLiteraturePhilosophyFeminism and literatureEthnologyGreat BritainCultureTwentieth-Century LiteratureFiction LiteratureFeminist Literary TheoryBritish CultureLiterature, Modern20th century.Fiction.LiteraturePhilosophy.Feminism and literature.EthnologyGreat Britain.Culture.Twentieth-Century Literature.Fiction Literature.Feminist Literary Theory.British Culture.823.912Pamboukian Sylvia A.1153868MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQ9910624310403321Agatha Christie and the Guilty Pleasure of Poison2967953UNINA