Murder in the Closet: Essays on Queer Clues in Crime Fiction Before Stonewall
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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.
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0786499923
ISBN13:9780786499922
Release Date:December 2016
Publisher:McFarland & Company
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
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