LEADER 03455nam 22006735 450 001 9910624310403321 005 20230810180244.0 010 $a9783031160004$b(electronic bk.) 010 $z9783031159992 024 7 $a10.1007/978-3-031-16000-4 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC7135377 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL7135377 035 $a(CKB)25315246100041 035 $a(DE-He213)978-3-031-16000-4 035 $a(EXLCZ)9925315246100041 100 $a20221112d2022 u| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aAgatha Christie and the Guilty Pleasure of Poison /$fby Sylvia A. Pamboukian 205 $a1st ed. 2022. 210 1$aCham :$cSpringer International Publishing :$cImprint: Palgrave Macmillan,$d2022. 215 $a1 online resource (230 pages) 225 1 $aCrime Files,$x2947-8359 311 08$aPrint version: Pamboukian, Sylvia A. Agatha Christie and the Guilty Pleasure of Poison Cham : Springer International Publishing AG,c2023 9783031159992 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $a1. 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. 330 $aAgatha Christie and the Guilty Pleasure of Poison examines Christie?s female poisoners in the context of Christie?s own experience in pharmacy and of detective fiction. In doing so, it uncovers an overlooked dynamic in which female poisoners deliver well-deserved comeuppance for gendered and classed wrongdoing ordinarily accepted in everyday life. While critics have long recognized male outlaws, like Robin Hood, who use crime to oppose a corrupt system, this book contends that female outlaws ? witches and poisoners ? offer a similar heritage of empowered femininity. Far from cozy and formulaic, Agatha Christie?s outlaw poisoners offer readers the surprising pleasures of comeuppance, and they set the stage for contemporary detective fiction writers, more recent films depicting poisoning as empowering, and even poison gardens, which are tourist destinations that offer visitors the guilty pleasure of poison. 410 0$aCrime Files,$x2947-8359 606 $aLiterature, Modern$x20th century 606 $aFiction 606 $aLiterature$xPhilosophy 606 $aFeminism and literature 606 $aEthnology$xGreat Britain 606 $aCulture 606 $aTwentieth-Century Literature 606 $aFiction Literature 606 $aFeminist Literary Theory 606 $aBritish Culture 615 0$aLiterature, Modern$x20th century. 615 0$aFiction. 615 0$aLiterature$xPhilosophy. 615 0$aFeminism and literature. 615 0$aEthnology$xGreat Britain. 615 0$aCulture. 615 14$aTwentieth-Century Literature. 615 24$aFiction Literature. 615 24$aFeminist Literary Theory. 615 24$aBritish Culture. 676 $a823.912 700 $aPamboukian$b Sylvia A.$01153868 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 912 $a9910624310403321 996 $aAgatha Christie and the Guilty Pleasure of Poison$92967953 997 $aUNINA