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Zusatztext ‘Long known as crime fiction’s best-seller and finest puzzler, Agatha Christie has recently been also recognized as a real social analyst. In The Bloomsbury Handbook twenty-one experts, including Val McDermid, give intriguingly varied accounts of Christie the world-aware searching novelist.’ Informationen zum Autor Mary Anna Evans is an Associate Professor of Professional Writing at the University of Oklahoma, USA. Her fifteen crime novels have received recognition including the Benjamin Franklin Award, the Oklahoma Book Award, and a Will Rogers Medallion Award gold medal. Her work has appeared in publications including Fem inist Studies , C lues: A Journal of Detection, The Atlantic , The Louisville Review , and CrimeReads . J.C. Bernthal is a Visiting Fellow at the University of Suffolk. He is the author of Queering Agatha Christie (2016) and Agatha Christie: A Companion to the Mystery Fiction (2022). He has previously edited The Ageless Agatha Christie (2016) and, with Rebecca Mills, Agatha Christie Goes to War (2020). In 2020, he received the Popular Culture Association's George N. Dove Award for encouraging the serious study of crime fiction. Zusammenfassung Nominated for the 2023 Edgar Allan Poe Award for Best Critical / Biography The first specifically academic companion to contemporary scholarship on the work of Agatha Christie, this book includes chapters by an international group of scholars writing on topics and fields of study as various as ecocriticism and the anthropocene, popular modernism, middlebrow fiction, queer theory, feminism, crime and the state, and more. It addresses a broad selection of Christie’s crime novels, as well as her short stories, literary novels written pseudonymously, and her own and others’ dramatic adaptations for television, film, and the stage. Featuring unprecedented access to images and content held in Christie’s personal archive, as well as a Foreword from renowned crime fiction writer Val McDermid, this is essential reading for anyone interested in Christie's work and legacy. Inhaltsverzeichnis Dedication Foreword - Val McDermid PART ONE: AGATHA CHRISTIE, THE WOMAN AND THE WRITER Introduction, and a Chronology - Mary Anna Evans and J.C. Bernthal My Grandmother, Agatha Christie - Mathew Prichard PART TWO: CRITICAL APPROACHES “ The Creative Impulse” and the Middlebrow Woman Detective Author - Rebecca Mills Christie’s Clues as Information - Michelle M. Kazmer Reading Agatha Christie Through A Feminist Lens - Mary Anna Evans Queer Clues to Christie - J.C. Bernthal Anthropocene and Archetype: Christie Does Ecocriticism - Susan Rowland The Fabulous Flapper: Psychogeography and the Female Detective - Sarah Martin Beit Agatha : Reading the Contemporary Middle East in Agatha Christie’s Novels - Nadia Atia PART THREE – CHRISTIE AND SOCIETY Christie and the Carnage of War - J.C. Bernthal Of Race, Law, and Order: Colonial Ghosts in Agatha Christie’s And Then There Were None - Meta G. Carstarphen Agatha Christie and the State - Mary Evans House and Home: The Country House - Brittain Bright Agatha Christie, The Law, and Justice - Mary Anna Evans Christie and Christianity - J.C. Bernthal Weapon of Choice: Poison, Christie, and the Golden Age of Detective Fiction - Kathryn Harkup PART FOUR -- BEYOND THE CRIME NOVELS Hiding in Plain Sight: The Mary Westmacott Novels - Merja Makinen Christie’s Radio Broadcasts for the BBC - Vike Martina Plock “A Glorious Gamble”: Agatha Christie and the <...
