Gender and Representation in British 'Golden Age' Crime Fiction
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- Synopsis
- This book provides an originaland compelling analysis of the ways in which British women's golden age crimenarratives negotiate the conflicting social and cultural forces that influenceddepictions of gender in popular culture in the 1920s until the late 1940s. The book explores awide variety of texts produced both by writers who have been the focus of arelatively large amount of critical attention, such as Agatha Christie, DorothyL. Sayers and Margery Allingham, but also those who have received comparativelylittle, such as Christianna Brand, Ngaio Marsh, Gladys Mitchell, Josephine Teyand Patricia Wentworth. Through its original readings, this book explores theambivalent nature of modes of femininity depicted in golden age crime fiction,and shows that seemingly conservative resolutions are often attempts to providea 'modern-yet-safe' solution to the conflicts raised in the texts.
- Copyright:
- 2016
Book Details
- Book Quality:
- Publisher Quality
- ISBN-13:
- 9781137536662
- Publisher:
- Palgrave Macmillan UK, London
- Date of Addition:
- 09/07/16
- Copyrighted By:
- Springer
- Adult content:
- No
- Language:
- English
- Has Image Descriptions:
- No
- Categories:
- Literature and Fiction, Mystery and Thrillers, Language Arts
- Submitted By:
- Bookshare Staff
- Usage Restrictions:
- This is a copyrighted book.