Agatha Christie and the Guilty Pleasure of...

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Beschreibung

Agatha Christie and the Guilty Pleasure of Poison examines Christie¿s female poisoners in the context of Christie¿s own experience in pharmacy and of detective fiction. In doing so, it uncovers an overlooked dynamic in which female poisoners deliver well-deserved comeuppance for gendered and classed wrongdoing ordinarily accepted in everyday life. While critics have long recognized male outlaws, like Robin Hood, who use crime to oppose a corrupt system, this book contends that female outlaws ¿ witches and poisoners ¿ offer a similar heritage of empowered femininity. Far from cozy and formulaic, Agatha Christie¿s outlaw poisoners offer readers the surprising pleasures of comeuppance, and they set the stage for contemporary detective fiction writers, more recent films depicting poisoning as empowering, and even poison gardens, which are tourist destinations that offer visitors the guilty pleasure of poison.

Über den Autor

Formerly a pharmacist, Dr. Sylvia A. Pamboukian is a professor of English at Robert Morris University near Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. She is the author of Doctoring the Novel: Medicine and Quackery from Shelley to Doyle, and her research and teaching interests include British literature, detective fiction, the Victorian Gothic, and the health humanities.

Zusammenfassung

Links Christie's impact to literary and cultural trends outside of puzzle plots

Rejects the conservative closure of the detective plot in favor of a more radical reading experience

Explores modern phenomena in relation to Golden Age fiction

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Agatha Christie, Poison, and Crime.- 2. Agatha Christie and Pharmacy.- 3. Dying Game: Unrepentant Outlaws in Christie and Doyle.- 4. Cheering Bystanders in Christie and Sayers.- 5. The Revenger's Comeuppance in Christie and Jackson.- 6. The Poisoner's Afterlives.- 7. Readers and the Poison Garden.

Details

Erscheinungsjahr:	2022
Genre:	Allgemeine Lexika
Rubrik:	Literaturwissenschaft
Medium:	Buch
Reihe:	Crime Files
Inhalt:	xv 222 S.
ISBN-13:	9783031159992
ISBN-10:	3031159993
Sprache:	Englisch
Ausstattung / Beilage:	HC runder Rücken kaschiert
Einband:	Gebunden
Autor:	Pamboukian, Sylvia A.
Auflage:	1st ed. 2022
Hersteller:	Springer International Publishing Springer International Publishing AG Crime Files
Maße:	216 x 153 x 18 mm
Von/Mit:	Sylvia A. Pamboukian
Erscheinungsdatum:	13.11.2022
Gewicht:	0,428 kg

Artikel-ID: 122623018