With 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 <i>The Bloomsbury Handbook</i> 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.

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The volume will be of particular interest to scholars, especially for the extensive bibliographical apparatus after each chapter, while general readers attracted to Christie may be interested in discovering new dimensions that her seemingly familiar stories can open up.

Forum for Modern Language Studies

Nominated for the 2023 Edgar Allan Poe Award for Best Critical / BiographyThe 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.
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DedicationForeword - Val McDermidPART ONE: AGATHA CHRISTIE, THE WOMAN AND THE WRITERIntroduction, and a Chronology - Mary Anna Evans and J.C. BernthalMy Grandmother, Agatha Christie - Mathew PrichardPART TWO: CRITICAL APPROACHES“The Creative Impulse” and the Middlebrow Woman Detective Author - Rebecca MillsChristie’s Clues as Information - Michelle M. KazmerReading Agatha Christie Through A Feminist Lens - Mary Anna EvansQueer Clues to Christie - J.C. BernthalAnthropocene and Archetype: Christie Does Ecocriticism - Susan RowlandThe Fabulous Flapper: Psychogeography and the Female Detective - Sarah MartinBeit Agatha: Reading the Contemporary Middle East in Agatha Christie’s Novels - Nadia AtiaPART THREE – CHRISTIE AND SOCIETY Christie and the Carnage of War - J.C. BernthalOf Race, Law, and Order: Colonial Ghosts in Agatha Christie’s And Then There Were None - Meta G. CarstarphenAgatha Christie and the State - Mary EvansHouse and Home: The Country House - Brittain BrightAgatha Christie, The Law, and Justice - Mary Anna EvansChristie and Christianity - J.C. BernthalWeapon of Choice: Poison, Christie, and the Golden Age of Detective Fiction - Kathryn HarkupPART FOUR -- BEYOND THE CRIME NOVELSHiding in Plain Sight: The Mary Westmacott Novels - Merja MakinenChristie’s Radio Broadcasts for the BBC - Vike Martina Plock“A Glorious Gamble”: Agatha Christie and the Theater - Benedict MorrisonFilm and Television Adaptations of Agatha Christie - Mark AldridgeLegacies - Barbara Peters, with Martin Edwards, Rhys Bowen, Ragnar Jónasson, and L. Alison HellerList of PlatesList of FiguresList of ContributorsAcknowledgements
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This is the first specifically academic companion to contemporary scholarship on the work of Agatha Christie, including chapters by an international group of scholars writing on topics and fields of study including ecocriticism and the anthropocene, popular modernism, middlebrow fiction, queer theory, feminism, crime and the state, and more.
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Hardback was well-reviewed and nominated for both the 2023 Edgar Allan Poe Award for Best Critical / Biography and the 2023 Macavity Award for Best Nonfiction
Bloomsbury Handbooks is a series of single-volume reference works which map the parameters of a discipline or sub-discipline and present the 'state-of-the-art' in terms of research. Each Handbook offers a systematic and structured range of specially commissioned essays reflecting on the history, methodologies, research methods, current debates and future of a particular field of research. Bloomsbury Handbooks provide researchers and graduate students with both cutting-edge perspectives on perennial questions and authoritative overviews of the history of research.
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Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9781350212473
Publisert
2022-10-06
Utgiver
Vendor
Bloomsbury Academic
Høyde
244 mm
Bredde
169 mm
Aldersnivå
P, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet
Antall sider
424

Biographical note

Mary 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.