Before the 1969 Stonewall Riots, LGBTQ life was dominated by the negative image of "the closet"--the metaphorical space where that which was deemed "queer" was hidden from a hostile public view. Literary studies of queer themes and characters in crime fiction have tended to focus on the more positive and explicit representations since the riots, while pre-Stonewall works are thought to reference queer only negatively or obliquely. This collection of new essays questions that view with an investigation of queer aspects in crime fiction published over eight decades, from the corseted Victorian era to the unbuttoned 1960s.…mehr
Before the 1969 Stonewall Riots, LGBTQ life was dominated by the negative image of "the closet"--the metaphorical space where that which was deemed "queer" was hidden from a hostile public view. Literary studies of queer themes and characters in crime fiction have tended to focus on the more positive and explicit representations since the riots, while pre-Stonewall works are thought to reference queer only negatively or obliquely. This collection of new essays questions that view with an investigation of queer aspects in crime fiction published over eight decades, from the corseted Victorian era to the unbuttoned 1960s.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Curtis Evans, an independent scholar and book dealer, has published numerous articles and essays on detective fiction as well as an award-winning book on industry and labor in the American South. He lives in Germantown, Tennessee.
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Table of Contents Introduction (Curtis Evans) Part One: Locked Doors The Queer Story of Fergus Hume (Lucy Sussex) A Redemptive Masquerade: Gender Identity in Samuel Hopkins Adams' The Secret of Lonesome Cove (J. F. Norris) Dropping Hairpins in Golden Age Detective Fiction: Man-Haters, Green Carnations and Gunsels (Noah Stewart) "Queer in some ways": Gay Characters in the Fiction of Agatha Christie (John Curran) Agatha Christie: Norms and Codes (Michael Moon) The Unshockable Mrs. Bradley: Sex and Sexuality in the Work of Gladys Mitchell (Brittain Bright) "Less beautiful in daylight": Josephine Tey and the Anxiety of Gender (J.C. Bernthal) "Mutually devoted": Female Relationships in Josephine Tey's Miss Pym Disposes (Moira Redmond) "The man with the laughing eyes": Socialism and Same-Sex Desire in G. D. H. Cole's The Death of a Millionaire (Curtis Evans )114 Humdrum Ecstasies: C. H. B. Kitchin and His Detective, Malcolm Warren (Michael Moon) "Two young men who write as one": Richard Wilson Webb, Hugh Callingham Wheeler, Male Couples and The Grindle Nightmare (Curtis Evans) Queering the Investigation: Explanation and Understanding in Todd Downing's Detective Fiction (Charles J. Rzepka) "A bad, bad past": Rufus King, Clifford Orr, College Drag and Detective Fiction (Curtis Evans) Foppish, Effeminate, or "a little too handsome": Coded Character Descriptions and Masculinity in the Mystery Novels of Mignon G. Eberhart (Rick Cypert) Part Two: Skeleton Keys "The finest triumvirate of perversion, horror and murder written this spring": Frank Walford's Twisted Clay (James Doig) Wayne Lonergan's Long Shadow: A Forties Murder and Its Literary Legacy (Drewey Wayne Gunn) "Claude was doing all right": Homosexuality, Hard-Boiled Crime Fiction and the Evolution of Ross Macdonald (Tom Nolan) "Elegant stuff ...¿ of its sort": Gore Vidal's Edgar Box Detective Novels (Curtis Evans) "Adonis in person": Same-Sex Intimacy and Male Eroticism the Detective Novels of Beverley Nichols (J. F. Norris) More Than Fiction: Troublesome Themes in the Life and Writing of Nancy Spain (Bruce Shaw) Man to Man: The Two-Men Theme in the Novels of Patricia Highsmith (Nick Jones) Kiss Kiss Bang Bang: Joseph Hansen's Known Homosexual (Josh Lanyon) I Am the Most! Camping It Up in George Baxt's Pharoah Love Mystery Series (J. F. Norris) About the Contributors Index
Table of Contents Introduction (Curtis Evans) Part One: Locked Doors The Queer Story of Fergus Hume (Lucy Sussex) A Redemptive Masquerade: Gender Identity in Samuel Hopkins Adams' The Secret of Lonesome Cove (J. F. Norris) Dropping Hairpins in Golden Age Detective Fiction: Man-Haters, Green Carnations and Gunsels (Noah Stewart) "Queer in some ways": Gay Characters in the Fiction of Agatha Christie (John Curran) Agatha Christie: Norms and Codes (Michael Moon) The Unshockable Mrs. Bradley: Sex and Sexuality in the Work of Gladys Mitchell (Brittain Bright) "Less beautiful in daylight": Josephine Tey and the Anxiety of Gender (J.C. Bernthal) "Mutually devoted": Female Relationships in Josephine Tey's Miss Pym Disposes (Moira Redmond) "The man with the laughing eyes": Socialism and Same-Sex Desire in G. D. H. Cole's The Death of a Millionaire (Curtis Evans )114 Humdrum Ecstasies: C. H. B. Kitchin and His Detective, Malcolm Warren (Michael Moon) "Two young men who write as one": Richard Wilson Webb, Hugh Callingham Wheeler, Male Couples and The Grindle Nightmare (Curtis Evans) Queering the Investigation: Explanation and Understanding in Todd Downing's Detective Fiction (Charles J. Rzepka) "A bad, bad past": Rufus King, Clifford Orr, College Drag and Detective Fiction (Curtis Evans) Foppish, Effeminate, or "a little too handsome": Coded Character Descriptions and Masculinity in the Mystery Novels of Mignon G. Eberhart (Rick Cypert) Part Two: Skeleton Keys "The finest triumvirate of perversion, horror and murder written this spring": Frank Walford's Twisted Clay (James Doig) Wayne Lonergan's Long Shadow: A Forties Murder and Its Literary Legacy (Drewey Wayne Gunn) "Claude was doing all right": Homosexuality, Hard-Boiled Crime Fiction and the Evolution of Ross Macdonald (Tom Nolan) "Elegant stuff ...¿ of its sort": Gore Vidal's Edgar Box Detective Novels (Curtis Evans) "Adonis in person": Same-Sex Intimacy and Male Eroticism the Detective Novels of Beverley Nichols (J. F. Norris) More Than Fiction: Troublesome Themes in the Life and Writing of Nancy Spain (Bruce Shaw) Man to Man: The Two-Men Theme in the Novels of Patricia Highsmith (Nick Jones) Kiss Kiss Bang Bang: Joseph Hansen's Known Homosexual (Josh Lanyon) I Am the Most! Camping It Up in George Baxt's Pharoah Love Mystery Series (J. F. Norris) About the Contributors Index
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