Foreword / Val McDermid -- Part one. Agatha Christie, the woman and the writer. Introduction, and a chronology / Mary Anna Evans and J.C. Bernthal ; My grandmother, Agatha Christie / Matthew Prichard -- Part two. Critical approaches. The middlebrow woman detective author / Rebecca Mills ; Christie's clues as information / Michelle M. Kazmer ; Reading Christie with a feminist lens / Mary Anna Evans ; Queer clues to Christie / J.C. Bernthal ; Christie does ecocriticism / Susan Rowland ; Psychogeography and the flapper sleuth / Sarah Martin ; Christie's contemporary Middle East / Nadia Atia -- Part three. Christie and society. Christie and the carnage of war / J.C. Bernthal ; Of race, law, and order: colonial ghosts / Meta G. Carstarphen ; Christie and the state / Mary Evans ; House and home: the country house / Brittain Bright ; Agatha Christie, the law, and justice / Mary Anna Evans ; Christie and christianity / J.C. Berthnal ; Poison in golden age detective fiction / Kathryn Harkup -- Part four. Beyond the crime novels. Hiding in plain sight: Mary Westmacott / Merja Makinen ; Christie's BBC radio broadcasts, 1930-55 / Vike Martina Plock ; Christie and the theater / Benedict Morrison ; Film and TV adaptations of Christie / Mark Aldridge ; Legacies / Barbara Peters, with Martin Edwards, Rhys Bowen, Ragnar JoĢnasson, and L. Alison Heller.
Summary:
"The 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."--Publisher's description.
This resource is supported by the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act as administered by State Library of Iowa.