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Dr JEREMY BLOOMFIELD's Outputs (6)

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.

Witchcraft And Paganism In Women's Midcentury Detective Fiction (2022)
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Bloomfield, J. (2022). Witchcraft And Paganism In Women's Midcentury Detective Fiction. Cambridge University Press (CUP). https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009072878

Witchcraft and paganism exert an insistent pressure from the margins of midcentury British detective fiction. This Element investigates the appearance of witchcraft and paganism in the novels of four of the most popular female detective authors of th... Read More about Witchcraft And Paganism In Women's Midcentury Detective Fiction.

“Three Ordinary, Normal Old Women”: Agatha Christie’s Uses of Shakespeare (2018)
Journal Article
Bloomfield, J. (2020). “Three Ordinary, Normal Old Women”: Agatha Christie’s Uses of Shakespeare. Shakespeare, 16(1), 23-39. https://doi.org/10.1080/17450918.2018.1553891

This article draws on recent scholarship on Shakespearean allusions and crime fiction to develop an in-depth exploration of Agatha Christie's quotations from the playwright. These quotations do not tend to point to the murderer or give clues to the p... Read More about “Three Ordinary, Normal Old Women”: Agatha Christie’s Uses of Shakespeare.

“My Eucharist to the people of District 11”:bread, sacrifice and thanksgiving in The Hunger Games (2017)
Journal Article
Bloomfield, J. (2017). “My Eucharist to the people of District 11”:bread, sacrifice and thanksgiving in The Hunger Games. Theology, 120(3), https://doi.org/10.1177/0040571X16684430

The imagery of bread in The Hunger Games provides an opportunity to read the novel within a Christian tradition alert to themes of suffering, sacrifice and solidarity. This article examines how the novel “re-enchants” bread as both a site of ideolog... Read More about “My Eucharist to the people of District 11”:bread, sacrifice and thanksgiving in The Hunger Games.