Murder in the Closet

Essays on Queer Clues in Crime Fiction Before Stonewall

Fiction & Literature, Literary Theory & Criticism, Mystery & Detective Fiction, Nonfiction, Social & Cultural Studies, Social Science, Gender Studies, Gay Studies
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Author: ISBN: 9781476626338
Publisher: McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers Publication: January 11, 2017
Imprint: Language: English
Author:
ISBN: 9781476626338
Publisher: McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers
Publication: January 11, 2017
Imprint:
Language: English

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 of new essays questions that view with an investigation of queer aspects in crime fiction published over eight decades, from the corseted Victorian era to the unbuttoned 1960s.

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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 of new essays questions that view with an investigation of queer aspects in crime fiction published over eight decades, from the corseted Victorian era to the unbuttoned 1960s.

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