Agatha Christie: Investigating Femininity

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Palgrave Macmillan UK, Oct 10, 2006 - Literary Criticism - 205 pages
Christie's books depict women as adventurous, independent figures who renegotiate sexual relationships along more equal lines. Women are also allowed to disrupt society and yet the texts refuse to see them as double deviant because of their femininity. This book demonstrates exactly how quietly innovatory Christie was in relation to gender.

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Agatha Christie: Investigating Femininity
M. Makinen
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About the author (2006)

MERJA MAKINEN is Principal Lecturer in English Literary Studies, Middlesex University, UK, and former Programme Tutor for the MA in Popular Literary Fictions. She has published on feminist writing in the Twentieth-century (especially on Angela Carter and Jeanette Winterson) and on popular genre fiction, including detective and crime writing.

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TitleAgatha Christie: Investigating Femininity
Crime Files
AuthorM. Makinen
Editionillustrated
PublisherPalgrave Macmillan UK, 2006
ISBN1403941718, 9781403941718
Length205 pages
Subjects ›  › 

Fiction / General
Language Arts & Disciplines / Linguistics / General
Literary Criticism / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
Literary Criticism / General
Literary Criticism / Modern / 20th Century
Literary Criticism / Semiotics & Theory
Social Science / Anthropology / Cultural & Social
Social Science / Gender Studies
Social Science / General
  
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