Conundrums for the Long Week-End
England, Dorothy L. Sayers, and Lord Peter Wimsey
Fiction & Literature, Literary Theory & Criticism
| Author: | Robert Kuhn McGregor, Ethan Lewis | ISBN: | 9781612777221 |
| Publisher: | The Kent State University Press | Publication: | November 15, 2000 |
| Imprint: | The Kent State University Press | Language: | English |
| Author: | Robert Kuhn McGregor, Ethan Lewis |
| ISBN: | 9781612777221 |
| Publisher: | The Kent State University Press |
| Publication: | November 15, 2000 |
| Imprint: | The Kent State University Press |
| Language: | English |
Lord Peter Wimsey-amateur detective, man of fashion, talented musician, and wealthy intellectual-is known to legions of readers. His enduring presence and popularity is a tribute to his creator, Dorothy L. Sayers, who brought Lord Peter to life during “the long week-end” between the First and Second World Wars, as British aristocracy began to change, making way for a modern world. In Conundrums for the Long Week-End, Robert McGregor and Ethan Lewis explore how Sayers used her fictional hero to comment on, and come to terms with, the social upheaval of the time: world wars, the crumbling of the privileged aristocracy, the rise of democracy, and the expanding struggle of women for equality.
Lord Peter Wimsey-amateur detective, man of fashion, talented musician, and wealthy intellectual-is known to legions of readers. His enduring presence and popularity is a tribute to his creator, Dorothy L. Sayers, who brought Lord Peter to life during “the long week-end” between the First and Second World Wars, as British aristocracy began to change, making way for a modern world. In Conundrums for the Long Week-End, Robert McGregor and Ethan Lewis explore how Sayers used her fictional hero to comment on, and come to terms with, the social upheaval of the time: world wars, the crumbling of the privileged aristocracy, the rise of democracy, and the expanding struggle of women for equality.
