Sentence:  The vogue for the sleuth-flâneur ... in the first half of the twentieth century has encouraged recent attempts to map the rise of British detective fiction, and its subsequent love affair with the thriller, onto the shifts in national morale precipitated by international conflict. One train of thought, for instance, suggests that the genre provides <WSD>nameable</WSD>, explicable corpses to mourn, after the senseless obliterations of the First World War. 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  Capable of being distinguished and named; able to be called by a specific name.