Writing performances
Subtitle: the stages of Dorothy L. Sayers
By: Crystal Downing.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2004
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 199
Subjects: Sayers, Dorothy L. 1893-1957 -- Criticism and interpretation.; Detective and mystery stories, English -- History and criticism.; Women and literature -- England -- History -- 20th century.; Wimsey, Peter, Lord (Fictitious character); Modernism (Literature) -- England.; Autobiography in literature.; Self in literature.
Description: "After Dorothy L. Sayers became famous for her fictional sleuth, Lord Peter Wimsey, she began investigating the mysteries of Anglo-Catholic Christianity, writing plays for both stage and radio. However, because her modernist contemporaries disdained both best-sellers and religious fiction, Sayers has been largely overlooked by the academy. Writing Performances is the first work to position Sayers's diverse writings within the critical climate of high modernism. Employing illustrations from Sayers's detective fiction to make theoretical issues accessible, Writing Performances employs insights from performance theory to argue that Sayers, though a popularizer, presciently anticipated the postmodern ionizing of Enlightenment rationality and scientific objectivity."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [179]-191) and index.