Queering Agatha Christie: Revisiting the Golden Age of Detective Fiction

by James Bernthal and J.C. Bernthal

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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,...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:3319335324

ISBN13:9783319335322

Release Date:September 2016

Publisher:Palgrave MacMillan

Length:304 Pages

Weight:1.11 lbs.

Dimensions:0.8" x 6.1" x 8.7"

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