Agatha Christie - Investigating Femininity

Informationen zum Autor MERJA MAKINEN is Principal Lecturer in English Literary Studies, Middlesex University, UK, and former Programme Tutor for the MA in Popular Literary Fictions. She has published on feminist writing in the Twentieth-century (especially on Angela Carter and Jeanette Winterson) and on popular genre fiction, including detective and crime writing. Klappentext Christie's books depict women as adventurous, independent figures who renegotiate sexual relationships along more equal lines. Women are also allowed to disrupt society and yet the texts refuse to see them as double deviant because of their femininity. This book demonstrates exactly how quietly innovatory Christie was in relation to gender. Zusammenfassung Christie's books depict women as adventurous! independent figures who renegotiate sexual relationships along more equal lines. Women are also allowed to disrupt society and yet the texts refuse to see them as double deviant because of their femininity. This book demonstrates exactly how quietly innovatory Christie was in relation to gender. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgements Abbreviations Introduction Preliminary Proceedings Detecting Deviancy Available Femininities Women Behaving Badly Representing Women of Violence An Examination of Otherness Endnotes Bibliography Index

List of contents

Acknowledgements Abbreviations Introduction Preliminary Proceedings Detecting Deviancy Available Femininities Women Behaving Badly Representing Women of Violence An Examination of Otherness Endnotes Bibliography Index

Product details

• Authors: M Makinen, M. Makinen, Merja Makinen
• Publisher: Palgrave UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 10.10.2006
• EAN: 9781403941718
• ISBN: 978-1-4039-4171-8
• No. of pages: 224
• Series: Crime Files; Crime Files
• Subjects: Fiction; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > Other languages / Other literatures; B, Gender Studies, Sociology, Fiction & related items, Cultural Studies, Cultural Theory, Fiction, Gender studies, gender groups, Literary theory, Culture—Study and teaching, European Literature, Literature, Modern—20th century, Twentieth-Century Literature, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, British literature, British and Irish Literature, Fiction Literature, Literature—Philosophy, Palgrave Literature & Performing Arts Collection, gender;society;women