TY - BOOK ID - 12069765 TI - Queering Agatha Christie : Revisiting the Golden Age of Detective Fiction PY - 2016 SN - 3319335324 3319335332 PB - Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, DB - UniCat KW - Literature. KW - Ethnology KW - Literature, Modern KW - Fiction. KW - British literature. KW - Sociology. KW - Sex (Psychology). KW - Gender expression. KW - Gender identity. KW - Twentieth-Century Literature. KW - British and Irish Literature. KW - British Culture. KW - Gender Studies. KW - Europe. KW - 20th century. KW - Homosexuality KW - Lesbianism KW - Gays KW - Lesbians KW - Queer theory. KW - Philosophy. KW - Identity. KW - Christie, Agatha, KW - Criticism and interpretation. KW - Female homosexuality KW - Lesbian love KW - Sapphism KW - Christie, Agatha Miller, KW - Christie, Agatha Mary Clarissa Miller, KW - Kri-xti, A-ga-ta, KW - Christie, Agata, KW - Kristi, Agata, KW - Kristi, A. KW - Kir̲isṭi, Akatā, KW - Кристи, Агата, KW - כריסטי, אגתה, KW - アガサ・クリスティ, KW - Sex identity (Gender identity) KW - Sexual identity (Gender identity) KW - Identity (Psychology) KW - Sex (Psychology) KW - Queer theory KW - Expression, Gender KW - Sex role KW - Psychology, Sexual KW - Sex KW - Sexual behavior, Psychology of KW - Sexual psychology KW - Sensuality KW - Social theory KW - Social sciences KW - Fiction KW - Metafiction KW - Novellas (Short novels) KW - Novels KW - Stories KW - Literature KW - Novelists KW - Belles-lettres KW - Western literature (Western countries) KW - World literature KW - Philology KW - Authors KW - Authorship KW - Psychological aspects KW - Philosophy KW - Gender identity KW - Women KW - Sexual behavior KW - Mallowan, Agatha Christie, KW - Westmacott, Mary, KW - Miller, Agatha Mary Clarissa KW - Christie Mallowan, Agatha KW - Literature, Modern-20th century. KW - Ethnology-Europe. KW - Developmental psychology. KW - Development (Psychology) KW - Developmental psychobiology KW - Psychology KW - Life cycle, Human KW - Literature, Modern—20th century. KW - Ethnology—Europe. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:12069765 AB - 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? ER -