Queering Agatha Christie Revisiting the Golden Age of Detective Fict
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 He
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ral E ditor :
Clive Bloom
Crime Files Series Editor Clive Bloom Professor Emeritus Middlesex University London United Kingdom
Since its invention in the nineteenth century, detective fiction has never been more popular. In novels, short stories, films, radio, television and now in computer games, private detectives and psychopaths, poisoners and overworked cops, tommy gun gangsters and cocaine criminals are the very stuff of modern imagination, and their creators one mainstay of popular consciousness. Crime Files is a ground-breaking series offering scholars, students and discerning readers a comprehensive set of guides to the world of crime and detective fiction. Every aspect of crime writing, detective fiction, gangster movie, true-crime exposé, police procedural and post-colonial investigation is explored through clear and informative texts offering comprehensive coverage and theoretical sophistication. More information about this series at http://www.springer.com/series/14927
J.C. Bernthal
Queering Agatha Christie Revisiting the Golden Age of Detective Fiction
J.C. Bernthal Independent Scholar, Norwich, United Kingdom
Crime Files ISBN 978-3-319-33532-2 ISBN 978-3-319-33533-9 DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-33533-9
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Elements of Chap. 2 were originally published under the title “‘Every Healthy Englishman Longed to Kick Him’: Masculinity and Nationalism in Agatha Christie’s Cards on the Table” in Clues: A Journal of Detection, Vol. 32, No. 2, 2014 by McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers. This project would not have been possible without funding from
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