Interview with Alison Light, a Scholar of Agatha Christie (Among Many Other Subjects)

All About Agatha Christie

Catherine Brobeck & Kemper Donovan

Tv & Film, Books, Film Reviews, Arts

4.7 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 20 May 2022

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

I took the opportunity to have a somewhat different conversation about Christie than I usually do, with the literary theorist Alison Light, who wrote about Christie as far back as 1991. We talked a whole lot about the middle classes, the notion of “small c” conservatism, and what it means to be English. Not your usual Christie fare, but I left the conversation with a fresh appreciation of our favorite author, and I hope you do too.

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0:00.0	Welcome to All About Agatha, the podcast dedicated to reading and ranking.
0:09.8	Every single mystery novel written by the Queen of Crime, Dame Agatha Christie.
0:14.4	I am Kenber Donovan, and boy do I have an interview for you listeners.
0:19.3	I'm not going to belabor the point.
0:21.7	Today you will be listening to my interview with the scholar Allison Light, and you will
0:26.6	learn a whole lot more about her in just a moment.
0:29.5	So I am going to take you to that interview right now.
0:37.3	I've been looking forward to speaking with Allison Light for a while now, actually.
0:41.8	Allison is a writer, critic, teacher, and scholar who was first published in the iconic
0:47.9	feminist magazine Spare Rib, which I believe it wouldn't be incorrect for me to compare
0:52.4	to Miz Magazine over here on the American side of the pond.
0:56.2	I think Spare Rib is much better title though.
1:00.2	She was also a member of the editorial collective feminist review through which she published
1:04.9	her much anthologized 1984 article, returning to mandually romance fiction, female sexuality
1:11.2	in class.
1:12.2	And honestly, if we had unlimited time, I would insist on talking about this article since
1:17.1	Daphne D'Amourier has a habit of intruding upon this Agatha Christie podcast from time
1:21.5	to time.
1:22.8	My former co-host Catherine and I even did a Rebecca deep dive on our Patreon account
1:26.9	not too long ago.
1:28.6	But moving along, Allison's first book is the one we'll be discussing in this episode.
1:33.1	It's titled Forever England, Femininity, Literature, and Conservatism Between the Wars.
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