Queering Agatha Christie : Revisiting the Golden Age of Detective Fiction.

Intro -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Chapter 1: Introduction -- Treatments of Christie to Date -- Theory: Evaluation and Overview -- Chapter Overview -- Notes -- Chapter 2: Constructing Agatha Christie -- Introduction -- Reading and Writing -- Emergence: The Mysterious Affair at Styles (1920) -- Parody: The Man in the Brown Suit (1924) -- Innovation: The Murder of Roger Ackroyd (1926) -- Persona: Ariadne Oliver -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Chapter 3: English Masculinity and Its Others -- Introduction -- Reading Christie, Reading Masculinity -- Poirot in Context -- The Healthy Englishman and the Oriental Other -- Peculiar Young Men -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Chapter 4: Femininity and Masquerade -- Introduction -- Reading Christie, Reading Women -- Vera Rossakoff -- Lady Edgware -- Arlena Stuart -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Chapter 5: Queer Children, Crooked Houses -- Introduction -- Reading Christie, Reading Families -- Incest: Growing Sideways -- The Freudian Child -- Adoption -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Chapter 6: Queering Christie on Television -- Introduction -- Watching Christie, Reading Sex -- Straight Poirot in Context -- Poirot: Cards on the Table (2006) -- Constructing Closets in St Mary Meade -- Marple: The Moving Finger (2006) -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Chapter 7: Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Primary Sources by Agatha Christie -- Secondary Sources Cited -- Other Works Mentioned -- Archives Cited -- Index.

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