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Middlebrow Feminism in Classic British Detective Fiction

Part of the Crime Files Series Book Series

DOI: 10.1057/9781137276964

ISBN: 978-1-349-44690-2

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK - Springer Journals

Nov 4, 2015

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Chapter 1Introduction: Middlebrow Women and Detective Fiction

Schaub, Melissa

Pages: 1 –26

[In Busman’s Honeymoon (1937), the final full-length Lord Peter Wimsey novel, Dorothy L. Sayers explores in detail the dynamics of marriage between two professionals. After their first real fight, Harriet Vane apologizes to Lord Peter, her new husband, by vehemently rejecting any possibility that...
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Chapter 2Victorian Contexts: Failed Gentlemen and New Women

Schaub, Melissa

Pages: 27 –57

[The roots of the Female Gentleman stretch back at least as far as Mary Wollstonecraft and the feminist theorists who followed her in criticizing the idea that men and women were essentially different beings, to be held to different standards. The most important precursor of the Female Gentleman,...
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Chapter 3Anatomy of the Female Gentleman

Schaub, Melissa

Pages: 58 –125

[In female-authored British mystery novels of the interwar period, a common picture emerges of a particular idealized female whose traits are derived from those of the nineteenth-century gentleman. Superficially, the Female Gentleman of the 1920s and 1930s closely resembles the New Woman in terms...
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Chapter 4Conclusion: Assessing the Female Gentleman

Schaub, Melissa

Pages: 126 –136

[Mary Challoner’s modernity brings us full circle, then, back to the question of the social value and impact of the ‘Female Gentleman’. Is this a positive feminist ideal, or should a critic place more emphasis on the pessimistic view that middlebrow novelists had contempt for the sex in general...

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