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  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    title: Queering Agatha Christie
    sub title: revisiting the golden age of detective fiction
  name:
    name part: Bernthal, J. C.
    name part: 1989-
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: Criticism, interpretation, etc.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: sz
    date issued: 2016
    copyright date: 2016
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: vii, 304 pages ; 22 cm.
  abstract: 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?
  table of contents: Introduction -- Constructing Agatha Christie -- English masculinity and its others -- Femininity and masquerade -- Queer children, crooked houses -- Queering Christie on television -- Conclusion.
  note: J.C. Bernthal.
  note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 271-298) and index.
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Christie, Agatha
      name part: 1890-1976
    topic: Criticism and interpretation
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Christie, Agatha
      name part: 1890-1976
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Christie, Agatha
      name part: 1890-1976
  subject:
    topic: Queer theory
  subject:
    topic: Queer theory
  subject:
    topic: Geschlechterforschung
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Christie, Agatha
      name part: (1890-1976)
    topic: Critique et interprétation
  subject:
    topic: Études sur le genre
  classification: PR6005.H66 Z562 2016
  classification: 823.912
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Crime files series
  identifier: 9783319335322
  identifier: 3319335324
  identifier: 9783319815381
  identifier: 3319815385
  record info:
    record content source: BTCTA
    record creation date: 160401
    record change date: 20210521125315.0
    record identifier: in00003715614
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng