عنوان

Gender and representation in British 'golden age' crime fiction /

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1137536667

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9781137536662

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9781137536655

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b429565

Title Proper

Gender and representation in British 'golden age' crime fiction /

General Material Designation

[Book]

First Statement of Responsibility

Megan Hoffman

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

1 online resource (x, 206 pages)

Text of Note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 195-202) and index

Text of Note

Introduction -- 1.Change and Anxiety -- 2.'Everybody Needs an Outlet' -- 3.A Joint Venture? -- 4.Ladies of a Modern World -- 5. Sensational Bodies -- Conclusion

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Text of Note

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

Detective and mystery stories, English-- 20th century-- History and criticism

Femininity in literature

Gender identity in literature

Women authors, English-- 20th century

LIT-- 004120

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Hoffman, Megan

Ohio Library and Information Network

Date of Transaction

20180510015939.0

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[Book]

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