Allusion in Detective Fiction: Shakespeare, the Bible and Dorothy L. Sayers
(2024)
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Bloomfield, J. (2024). Allusion in Detective Fiction: Shakespeare, the Bible and Dorothy L. Sayers. Palgrave. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-58339-1
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 na... Read More about Allusion in Detective Fiction: Shakespeare, the Bible and Dorothy L. Sayers.