Title: Writing performances
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.
Subjects: Autobiography in literature, Criticism and interpretation, English Detective and mystery stories, History, History and criticism, Lord Wimsey, Peter (Fictitious character), Modernism (Literature), Self in literature, Women and literature, Criticism
Places: England
People: Dorothy L. Sayers (1893-1957)
Time periods: 20th century