Gender and Representation in British ‘Golden Age’ Crime Fiction

Gender and Representation in British ‘Golden Age’ Crime Fiction
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Publisher : Springer
Total Pages : 212
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ISBN-10 : 9781137536662
ISBN-13 : 1137536667
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Book Synopsis Gender and Representation in British ‘Golden Age’ Crime Fiction by : Megan Hoffman

Download or read book Gender and Representation in British ‘Golden Age’ Crime Fiction written by Megan Hoffman and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-05-17 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides an original and compelling analysis of the ways in which British women’s golden age crime narratives negotiate the conflicting social and cultural forces that influenced depictions of gender in popular culture in the 1920s until the late 1940s. The book explores a wide variety of texts produced both by writers who have been the focus of a relatively large amount of critical attention, such as Agatha Christie, Dorothy L. Sayers and Margery Allingham, but also those who have received comparatively little, such as Christianna Brand, Ngaio Marsh, Gladys Mitchell, Josephine Tey and Patricia Wentworth. Through its original readings, this book explores the ambivalent nature of modes of femininity depicted in golden age crime fiction, and shows that seemingly conservative resolutions are often attempts to provide a ‘modern-yet-safe’ solution to the conflicts raised in the texts.


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