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

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

Evans, Curtis

Paperback

Literary CriticismGLBTQIA Studies

ISBN10: 0786499923
ISBN13: 9780786499922
Publisher: McFarland & Company
Published: Dec 12 2016
Pages: 304
Weight: 0.90
Height: 0.60 Width: 5.90 Depth: 9.00
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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