{"product_id":"queering-agatha-christie-j-c-bernthal-9783319335322","title":"Queering Agatha Christie: Revisiting the Golden Age of Detective Fiction","description":"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 \u003ci\u003eQueering Agatha Christie\u003c\/i\u003e 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 \u003ci\u003ePoirot \u003c\/i\u003eand Marple adaptations, with visible LGBT characters, and poses the question: might the books be queerer?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e J. C. Bernthal\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 3319335324\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9783319335322\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Palgrave MacMillan\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/15\/2016\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 304\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.11lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.69h x 6.06w x 0.85d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 03\/01\/2017","brand":"J. C. Bernthal","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48089082265855,"sku":"9783319335322","price":139.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_ea381ec3-2382-4e83-af44-e002830e5fd3.jpg?v=1769108097","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/queering-agatha-christie-j-c-bernthal-9783319335322","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}