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Allusion in Detective Fiction: Shakespeare, the Bible and Dorothy L. Sayers (Crime Files)

Literary Theory & Movements

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This study argues that allusion is a central part of classic British detective fiction. It demonstrates the fraught status of Shakespeare and the Bible during the Golden Age of the British detective novel, and the cultural currents which novelists navigated whilst alluding to them. The first part traces the complex web of allusions to Shakespeare and the Bible which appear in the novels of Agatha Christie and Dorothy L. Sayers, examining the meanings these allusions produce. The second part explores the way in which Sayers’ own collection of detective novels became a canon, on which later novelists exercised those same allusive practices. It studies allusions to Sayers’ novels throughout the twentieth century and into the twenty-first, from Gladys Mitchell and P.D. James to Reginald Hill and Sujata Massey. This study reveals allusion as a shaping force at the origin of the classic British detective novel, and a continuing element in its identity.

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Allusion in Detective Fiction: Shakespeare, the Bible and Dorothy L. Sayers (Crime Files)

Product type: ABIS_BOOK

Brand: Palgrave Macmillan

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Format: hardcover
ASIN: 3031583388
Category: Books > Subjects > Poetry, Drama & Criticism > History & Criticism > Literary Theory & Movements
Domain: Amazon UK
Release Date: 10 July 2024
Listed Since: 14 March 2024

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