04112nam a22005895i 4500 978-3-031-58339-1 DE-He213 20251030112621.0 cr nn 008mamaa 240710s2024 sz | s |||| 0|eng d 9783031583391 978-3-031-58339-1 10.1007/978-3-031-58339-1 doi PN770-779 DSBH bicssc LIT024050 bisacsh DSBH thema Bloomfield, Jem. author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut 80276 Allusion in Detective Fiction [electronic resource] : Shakespeare, the Bible and Dorothy L. Sayers / by Jem Bloomfield. 1st ed. 2024. Cham : Springer Nature Switzerland : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2024. IX, 230 p. online resource. text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Crime Files, 2947-8359 Introduction: 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. 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. 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). . Literature, Modern 20th century. Religion History. 66931 European literature. Literature History and criticism. 66499 European literature Renaissance, 1450-1600. 67445 Twentieth-Century Literature. History of Religion. 66936 European Literature. Literary Criticism. 66500 Early Modern and Renaissance Literature. 67447 SpringerLink (Online service) Springer Nature eBook Printed edition: 9783031583384 Printed edition: 9783031583407 Printed edition: 9783031583414 Crime Files, 2947-8359 73750 https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-58339-1 ZDB-2-LCM ZDB-2-SXL 61470 61470