[PDF] The Victorian Approach To Modernism In The Fiction Of Dorothy L Sayers eBook

Author : Aoife Leahy
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 195 pages
File Size : 22,58 MB
Release : 2009-05-27
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1443811998

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Dorothy L. Sayers wrote bestselling detective novels and short stories in the 1920s and 1930s. Working within a popular medium, Sayers promotes nineteenth century and modernist literature with skills learnt during a period of employment in an advertising agency. In much of her fiction she recommends her choice of good books by name. She also suggests that taking Victorian literature as a foundation can bring her reader to a better understanding of literary modernism. With a didactic intent, Sayers shows how Lewis Carroll’s Alice can help us to eventually read Virginia Woolf, for instance. Her approach to educating her readers is always through entertainment. Sayers worked briefly as a teacher before taking up copywriting and retained important insights on how to improve the learning experience for any reader. Sayers’ admiration for the Victorian sensation author Wilkie Collins is widely recognised. This book examines Sayers’ attention to equally important Victorian influences from John Ruskin and George Eliot to Oscar Wilde, particularly in relation to the topic of education. She often questions the boundaries between “popular” and “serious” literature. Sayers’ personal views on the connections between mid-Victorian, late Victorian and high modernist authors are also considered.

Author : Eric Sandberg
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 45,36 MB
Release : 2022-01-04
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1476645302

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Dorothy L. Sayers was one of the "Queens of Crime." Alongside writers like Agatha Christie, she perfected the whodunnit, but also used the genre to explore social, ethical, and emotional matters. Her characters, particularly Lord Peter Wimsey and his investigative partner Harriet Vane, struggle with the complexities of life and love in a rapidly changing world while solving some of the most intricate and complex mysteries ever offered to the reading public. Sayers was also an important theoretician of detective fiction, a religious dramatist, a public intellectual, and one of the 20th century's most important translators of Dante. While focusing on her mystery fiction, this companion offers a full view of all aspects of Sayers's career. It is an ideal introduction for readers new to Sayers's diverse and rewarding body of work, and an invaluable companion for her many fans.

Author : John D. Morgenstern
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 16,66 MB
Release : 2024-01-11
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 135024872X

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Retracing the steps of a surprising array of 20th-century writers who ventured into the fantastical, topsy-turvy world of Lewis Carroll's fictions, this book demonstrates the full extent of Carroll's legacy in literary modernism. Testing the authority of language and mediation through extensive word-play and genre-bending, the Alice books undoubtedly prefigure literary modernism at its upmost experimental. The collection's chapters look beyond literary style to show how Carroll's writings had a far-reaching impact on modern life, from commercial culture to politics and philosophy. This book shows us the Alice we recognize from Carroll's novels but also the Alice modernist writers encountered through the looking-glass of these extraliterary discourses. Recovering a common touchstone between the likes of T. S. Eliot, James Joyce, Virginia Woolf, W. H. Auden, and writers conventionally regarded on the periphery of modernist studies, such as Dorothy L. Sayers, Sylvia Plath, Jorge Luis Borges, Flann O'Brien, and Vladimir Nabokov, this volume ultimately provides a new entry-point into a more broadly conceptualised global modernism.

Author : Christine Colón
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 389 pages
File Size : 36,16 MB
Release : 2017-12-22
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1351168185

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In Writing for the Masses: Dorothy L. Sayers and the Victorian Literary Tradition Dr. Christine A. Colón explores how Sayers carefully negotiates the complexities of early twentieth century literary culture by embracing a specifically Victorian literary tradition of writing to engage a wide audience. Using a variety of examples from Sayers’s detective fiction, essays, and religious drama, Dr. Colón charts Sayers’s development as a writer whose intense desire to connect with her audience eventually compels her to embrace the role of a Victorian sage for her own age. Ultimately, the Victorian literary tradition not only provides her with an empowering model for her own work as she struggles as a writer of detective fiction to balance her integrity as an artist with her desire to reach a mass audience but also facilitates her growth as a public intellectual as she strives to help her nation recover from the devastation of World War II.

Author : Dorothy L Sayers
Publisher : Cby Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,46 MB
Release : 2024-05-31
Category : Education
ISBN : 9789360515546

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Immerse yourself in the complete literary tapestry of Dorothy L Sayers with "Collected Works." This extensive anthology gathers all of Sayers' writings, offering readers an unparalleled opportunity to explore her entire body of work, from beloved detective novels to insightful essays and evocative poetry. "Whose Body?" - Lord Peter Wimsey's debut in the world of crime-solving. "Clouds of Witness" - A journey into family secrets and legal intricacies. "The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club" - A club's secrets lead to a perplexing mystery. "Lord Peter Views the Body" - A collection of Lord Peter Wimsey's intriguing cases. "Catholic Tales and Christian Songs" - Sayers' spiritually resonant storytelling. "Op. I" - Early literary explorations. "Oxford Poetry, 1917" - Poetic contributions from Sayers.

Author : M. Schaub
Publisher : Springer
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 23,36 MB
Release : 2013-02-21
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1137276967

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This is a feminist study of a recurring character type in classic British detective fiction by women - a woman who behaves like a Victorian gentleman. Exploring this character type leads to a new evaluation of the politics of classic detective fiction and the middlebrow novel as a whole.

Author : Ágnes Zsófia Kovács
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 38,63 MB
Release : 2017-01-06
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1443867489

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This volume explores how the concepts of space and gaze are tied in with social constructions of gender relations. It discusses the gendered body, the queer gaze, the relationship between body and memory, the memory of war, monstrosity, and also domestic and hybrid spaces as key concepts. The arguments within the book connect core theoretical issues of gender and space to well-known literary texts and contexts, like the poems of Sylvia Plath and the novels of Don DeLillo, Toni Morrison and Cormack McCarthy. The collection will be of interest to university students and instructors alike, as an extended introduction to critical and theoretical discourses on gender and space.