“Seeing the Actual Physical Betty Kane”: Reading the Fille Fatale in Josephine Tey’s The Franchise Affair in the Age of #metoo

Beyer, Charlotte ORCID: 0000-0002-2701-5443 (2019) “Seeing the Actual Physical Betty Kane”: Reading the Fille Fatale in Josephine Tey’s The Franchise Affair in the Age of #metoo. Open Library of Humanities, 5 (1). pp. 1-20. doi:10.16995/olh.470

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Abstract

This article offers a feminist reading of Josephine Tey's 1948 Domestic Noir novel The Franchise Affair, with a specific focus on the figure of the fille fatale. I investigate the gender-political dimensions of justice and the law, in order to establish the psychological, literary and legal contexts for representing female sexuality and social class in the late Golden Age crime genre. The article furthermore discusses pedagogy, specifically using The Franchise Affair as a teaching and learning case study for the employment of critical pedagogy in the contemporary diverse undergraduate classroom.

Item Type:	Article
Article Type:	Article
Subjects:	B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BF Psychology K Law > K Law (General) P Language and Literature > PN Literature (General) P Language and Literature > PR English literature > PR111 Women authors
Divisions:	Schools and Research Institutes > School of Creative Arts
Research Priority Areas:	Culture, Continuity, and Transformation
Depositing User:	Charlotte Beyer
Date Deposited:	18 Dec 2019 11:11
Last Modified:	31 Aug 2023 08:54
URI:	https://eprints.glos.ac.uk/id/eprint/7480

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