Murder in the Closet: Essays on Queer Clues in Crime Fiction Before Stonewall

by Curtis Evans

Book Overview

Before the 1969 Stonewall Riots, LGBTQ life was dominated by the negative image of "the closet"--the metaphorical space where that which was deemed "queer" was hidden from a hostile public view. Literary studies of queer themes and characters in crime fiction have tended to focus on the more positive and explicit representations since the riots, while pre-Stonewall works are thought to reference queer only negatively or obliquely. This collection...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0786499923
• ISBN13: 9780786499922
• Release Date: December 2016
• Publisher: McFarland and Company, Inc.
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.9" x 9.0"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher