Gender and Representation in British 'Golden Age' Crime Fiction

by Megan Hoffman

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1137536659
• ISBN13: 9781137536655
• Release Date: June 2016
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 206 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 8.4"