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Agatha Christie and the Guilty Pleasure of Poison

By: Sylvia A. Pamboukian

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Agatha Christie and the Guilty Pleasure of Poison

By: Sylvia A. Pamboukian

Agatha Christie and the Guilty Pleasure of Poison examines Christie’s female poisoners in the context of Christie’s own experience in pharmacy and of detective fiction. In doing so, it uncovers an overlooked dynamic in which female poisoners deliver well-deserved comeuppance for gendered and classed wrongdoing ordinarily accepted in everyday life. While critics have long recognized male outlaws, like Robin Hood, who use crime to oppose a corrupt system, this book contends that female outlaws – witches and poisoners – offer a similar heritage of empowered femininity. Far from cozy and formulaic, Agatha Christie’s outlaw poisoners offer readers the surprising pleasures of comeuppance, and they set the stage for contemporary detective fiction writers, more recent films depicting poisoning as empowering, and even poison gardens, which are tourist destinations that offer visitors the guilty pleasure of poison.

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Doctoring the Novel

Medicine and Quackery from Shelley to Doyle

By: Sylvia A. Pamboukian

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Doctoring the Novel

Medicine and Quackery from Shelley to Doyle

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If nineteenth-century Britain witnessed the rise of medical professionalism, it also witnessed rampant quackery. It is tempting to categorize historical practices as either orthodox or quack, but what did these terms really signify in medical and public circles at the time? How did they develop and evolve? What do they tell us about actual medical practices? Doctoring the Novel explores the ways in which language constructs and stabilizes these slippery terms by examining medical quackery and orthodoxy in works such as Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, Charles Dickens’s Bleak House and Little Dorrit, Charlotte Brontë’s Villette, Wilkie Collins’s Armadale, and Arthur Conan Doyle’s Stark Munro Letters. Contextualized in both medical and popular publishing, literary analysis reveals that even supposedly medico-scientific concepts such as orthodoxy and quackery evolve not in elite laboratories and bourgeois medical societies but in the rough-and-tumble of the public sphere, a view that acknowledges the considerable, and often underrated, influence of language on medical practices.

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Agatha Christie and the Guilty Pleasure of Poison

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Doctoring the Novel

Medicine and Quackery from Shelley to Doyle

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Ohio University Press

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Agatha Christie and the Guilty Pleasure of Poison

Agatha Christie and the Guilty Pleasure of Poison

Doctoring the Novel

Doctoring the Novel

Agatha Christie and the Guilty Pleasure of Poison

Agatha Christie and the Guilty Pleasure of Poison

Doctoring the Novel

Doctoring the Novel

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