03716nam a22005055i 4500001001800000003000900018005001700027007001500044008004100059020001800100024003500118050001400153072001700167072002300184072001600207100007800223245012700301250001800428264007900446300003300525336002600558337002600584338003600610347002400646490002800670505049700698520144601195650003802641650002302679650002502702650003902727650004902766650003402815650002502849650002502874650002402899650004502923710003402968773002603002776003603028776003603064776003603100830002803136856004603164978-3-031-58339-1DE-He21320251030112621.0cr nn 008mamaa240710s2024    sz |    s    |||| 0|eng d  a97830315833917 a10.1007/978-3-031-58339-12doi 4aPN770-779 7aDSBH2bicssc 7aLIT0240502bisacsh 7aDSBH2thema1 aBloomfield, Jem.eauthor.4aut4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut10aAllusion in Detective Fictionh[electronic resource] :bShakespeare, the Bible and Dorothy L. Sayers /cby Jem Bloomfield.  a1st ed. 2024. 1aCham :bSpringer Nature Switzerland :bImprint: Palgrave Macmillan,c2024.  aIX, 230 p.bonline resource.  atextbtxt2rdacontent  acomputerbc2rdamedia  aonline resourcebcr2rdacarrier  atext filebPDF2rda1 aCrime Files,x2947-83590 aIntroduction: Shakespeare, the Bible and the Textual Crisis -- Section I -- Chapter One: Sayers, Satan, Milton, Donne -- Chapter Two: Seeing Darkly, Seeing Visions: Christie’s Bible -- Chapter Three: Three Ordinary, Normal Old Women: Christie’s Shakespeare -- Section II: Introduction: The New Canon -- Chapter Four: Rival Queens of Crime -- Chapter Five: Let’s Have Eight Other Gaudy Nights -- Chapter Six: Sayers’s Followers: Where the Bodies and the Books are Buried -- Conclusion.  aThis 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. Jem Bloomfield is Assistant Professor of Literature at the University of Nottingham, UK. His research interests focus around detective fiction, British mid-century writing, and the reception histories of Shakespeare and the Bible. His books include Words of Power: Reading Shakespeare and the Bible (2016), Witchcraft and Paganism in Midcentury Women’s Detective Fiction (2022) and Paths in the Snow: A Literary Journey Through The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (2023). . 0aLiterature, Modernx20th century. 0aReligionxHistory. 0aEuropean literature. 0aLiteraturexHistory and criticism. 0aEuropean literaturexRenaissance, 1450-1600.14aTwentieth-Century Literature.24aHistory of Religion.24aEuropean Literature.24aLiterary Criticism.24aEarly Modern and Renaissance Literature.2 aSpringerLink (Online service)0 tSpringer Nature eBook08iPrinted edition:z978303158338408iPrinted edition:z978303158340708iPrinted edition:z9783031583414 0aCrime Files,x2947-835940uhttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-58339-1