Murdering Miss Marple

Essays on Gender and Sexuality in the New Golden Age of Women's Crime Fiction
Herausgeber: Kim, Julie H.

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Produktbeschreibung

During the interwar "golden age" of British detective fiction, women writers like Dorothy L. Sayers and Agatha Christie reigned, but their work remains tame compared to today's crime novels. Elements of sexuality and gender, including soft porn and sexual psychopathy, pervade contemporary detective fiction. The 10 essays in this collection explore issues of gender and sexuality in crime writing by women from 1985 to 2011, surveying works about girl sleuths, parodies, hard-boiled detective fiction, police procedurals, and recent serial killer series. They examine the relationship between genre and gender and explore how later works enter into a field of "post-feminism." Most importantly, this volume demonstrates how popular women writers of the last three decades have reconceptualized what it means to be a female detective.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: McFarland
• Seitenzahl: 246
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Februar 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 405g
• ISBN-13: 9780786463312
• ISBN-10: 0786463317
• Artikelnr.: 34565988

Autorenporträt

Julie H. Kim is a professor of English at Northeastern Illinois University in Chicago. She teaches and publishes in early modern British and contemporary British and American literatures.

Inhaltsangabe

Table of Contents
Introduction: Re-Imagining Gender and Sexuality in Women's Crime Fiction
JULIE H. KIM     
Nancy Drew vs. Nancy Clue: Girl Sleuths Discover Their Sexualities
1. Configuring Space and Sexuality: Nancy Drew Enters The Bluebeard Room
MICHAEL G. CORNELIUS     
2. Not-So-Nice, Indeed: Mabel Maney, Girl Detectives, and Sexual Awakenings
JENNIFER MITCHELL     
Long Ago, in Places Far Away: Gender Subversion in Detective Fiction Period
Pieces
3. Repopulating the Margins: Rhys Bowen's Treatment of Gender, History, and
Power
KELLEY WEZNER     
4. Assuming Identities: Strategies of Drag in Laurie R. King's Mary Russell
Series
MEGAN HOFFMAN     
Genre vs. Gender, Sexuality, Race, and Class
5. Genre-Bending in Neely's Blanche White Series: Testing the Limits of
Crime Fiction
BETSY YOUNG     
6. "W" Is for Woman: Deconstructing the Private Dick in Sue Grafton's
Alphabet Series
HEATH A. DIEHL      
Language and Gender, Narrative and Sexuality: Rhetorics of Identity and
Desire
7. Melancholia, Narrative Objectivity and the Eyewitness: The Role of the
Narrator in Barbara Vine's A Dark-Adapted Eye and The Minotaur
ANDREW HOCK SOON NG     
8. Postfeminism(s) and Authority in Contemporary Glasgow Police Procedurals
PETER CLANDFIELD     
(De)constructed Body and Sexual Psychopathy: Serial Killing of Gender
Binaries
9. Beyond Gender and Sexuality: The Serial Killers of Val McDermid
NEIL MCCAW     
10. Neither Victim nor Vixen: Reading the Female Detective's Receding Body
and Textual Violence
WINTER S. ELLIOTT     
About the Contributors     
Index