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<p><b>WINNER OF THE BARBARA REYNOLDS AWARD!</b></p><p>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. <i>Writing Performances</i> is the first work to position Sayers' diverse writings within the critical climate of high modernism. Employing exuberant illustrations from Sayers' detective fiction to make theoretical issues accessible, the book employs insights from performance theory to argue that Sayers, though a popularizer, presciently anticipated the postmodern ironizing of Enlightenment rationality and scientific objectivity.</p>

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Author

Crystal Downing

Publisher

Palgrave Macmillan US : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan

Published

2004

Language

EN

ISBN

9781403964526

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Mystery, Memoir