LEADER 03762nam 22006735 450 001 9910255254403321 005 20200701031629.0 010 $a3-319-33533-2 024 7 $a10.1007/978-3-319-33533-9 035 $a(CKB)3710000000843119 035 $a(EBL)4662667 035 $a(DE-He213)978-3-319-33533-9 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4662667 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000843119 100 $a20160901d2016 u| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aQueering Agatha Christie$b[electronic resource] $eRevisiting the Golden Age of Detective Fiction /$fby J.C Bernthal 205 $a1st ed. 2016. 210 1$aCham :$cSpringer International Publishing :$cImprint: Palgrave Macmillan,$d2016. 215 $a1 online resource (308 p.) 225 1 $aCrime Files 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a3-319-33532-4 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aIntroduction -- 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. 330 $aThis book is the first fully theorized queer reading of a Golden Age British crime writer. Agatha Christie was the most commercially successful novelist of the twentieth century, and her fiction remains popular. She created such memorable characters as Hercule Poirot and Jane Marple, and has become synonymous with a nostalgic, conservative tradition of crime fiction. J.C. Bernthal reads Christie through the lens of queer theory, uncovering a playful, alert, and subversive social commentary. After considering Christie?s emergence in a commercial market hostile to her sex, in Queering Agatha Christie Bernthal explores homophobic stereotypes, gender performativity, queer children, and masquerade in key texts published between 1920 and 1952. Christie engaged with debates around human identity in a unique historical period affected by two world wars. The final chapter considers twenty-first century Poirot and Marple adaptations, with visible LGBT characters, and poses the question: might the books be queerer? 410 0$aCrime Files 606 $aLiterature, Modern?20th century 606 $aFiction 606 $aBritish literature 606 $aEthnology?Europe 606 $aSex (Psychology) 606 $aGender expression 606 $aTwentieth-Century Literature$3https://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/822000 606 $aFiction$3https://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/825000 606 $aBritish and Irish Literature$3https://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/833000 606 $aBritish Culture$3https://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/411050 606 $aGender Studies$3https://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/Y20090 615 0$aLiterature, Modern?20th century. 615 0$aFiction. 615 0$aBritish literature. 615 0$aEthnology?Europe. 615 0$aSex (Psychology). 615 0$aGender expression. 615 14$aTwentieth-Century Literature. 615 24$aFiction. 615 24$aBritish and Irish Literature. 615 24$aBritish Culture. 615 24$aGender Studies. 676 $a155.33 700 $aBernthal$b J.C$4aut$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut$01058462 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910255254403321 996 $aQueering Agatha Christie$92499999 997 $aUNINA