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OverviewNominated 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. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Mary Anna Evans , J.C. BernthalPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Imprint: Bloomsbury Academic ISBN: 9781350502772ISBN 10: 1350502774 Pages: 424 Publication Date: 19 September 2024 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Not yet available  This item is yet to be released. You can pre-order this item and we will dispatch it to you upon its release. Table of ContentsDedication 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 Theater - Benedict Morrison Film and Television Adaptations of Agatha Christie - Mark Aldridge Legacies - Barbara Peters, with Martin Edwards, Rhys Bowen, Ragnar Jónasson, and L. Alison Heller List of Plates List of Figures List of Contributors AcknowledgementsReviewsWith well-established approaches to Christie alongside hitherto understudied or new(er) approaches, the Handbook can serve as a starting point into Christie Studies, while it also presents innovative interpretations and an impressive amount of thorough research to non-newcomers to Christie. * English Studies * A thought provoking and stimulating read. * Cross-Examining Crime * ‘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.’ * Stephen Knight, Honorary Research Professor, University of Melbourne, Australia. * Author InformationMary Anna Evans is an Assistant Professor of Professional Writing at the University of Oklahoma, USA. Her fourteen crime novels have received recognition including the Benjamin Franklin Award and three Florida Book Awards bronze medals. She holds an MFA in creative writing and is a doctoral researcher at the University of Exeter. Her work has appeared in publications including Feminist Studies, The Atlantic, The Louisville Review, and CrimeReads. J.C. Bernthal is Visiting Lecturer at Middlesex University, UK. His publications include Queering Agatha Christie, The Ageless Agatha Christie and, with Rebecca Mills, Agatha Christie Goes to War. Bernthal founded the annual international Agatha Christie conferences in 2014 and sits on the editorial boards of Crime Fiction Studies and Clues: A Journal of Detection. Bernthal won the Popular Culture Association’s Dove Award for crime fiction scholarship in 2020. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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