Sexuality and Gender in Fictions of Espionage

Ann Rea is Professor of English Literature at the University of Pittsburgh at Johnstown, USA. She is co-editor of the Literary Texts and the Popular Marketplace series with Nick Hubble and she also edited the essay collection, Middlebrow Wodehouse in 2015.

Introduction

1.Camp Camouflage: The Art of Espionage in Mr. Norris Changes Trains, (Megan Faragher, Wright State University, Ohio, USA)

2.Vanished Ladies: Using Helen MacInnes’s Above Suspicion to Look at Women in Spy Fiction, (Kyle Smith, Perth College UHI, Scotland)

3.While Still We Live: Gender, Secret Agents, and National Ethics (Michael T. Williamson, Indiana University of Pennsylvania, USA)

4.‘Some Other Man Who Would Have to be Set Aside:’ Burgess, Maclean, and the Adversarial Spy in Ian Fleming’s From Russia With Love (Oliver Buckton, Florida Atlantic University, USA)

5.Bond, Colonialism and the ‘Other’ (Christine Berberich, University of Portsmouth, UK)

6.‘Learn, Babies, Learn’: Race, Representation, and John Birch Society Activists Julia Brown and Lola Belle Holmes (Veronica Wilson, University of Pittsburgh at Johnstown, USA)

7.‘A New Domesticity’ and Masculinity in John le Carré’s The Spy Who Came in from the Cold and Len Deighton’s The Ipcress File (Ann Rea, University of Pittsburgh at Johnstown, USA)

8.A Queer Thing: The Older Woman Spy (Rosie White, Northumbria University, UK)

9.‘What’s the character?’ Adapting Agency and Gender in The Little Drummer Girl (Rachel Hoag, West Virginia University, USA)

10.‘Extolling the Virtues of Alpaca Cloth or Buttons Made of Tagua Nut’: The Influence of Douglas Hayward and Tailoring in John le Carré’s The Tailor of Panama (Llewella Chapman, University of East Anglia, UK)

11.‘Darling Men, Lover Boys and Rogues:’ Connie Sachs, Molly Doran and the Precarity of of Institutional Memory in John le Carré’s Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy and Mick Herron’s Dead Lions (Paul Lohneis, University of West London, UK)

Coda: Ann Rea, Stella Rimington, The ‘Open Secret’ and the ‘Mission to Inform”