lecturer in Italian studies at Monash University in Melbourne, Australia.

This essay explores how the fictional female detective of Dorothy L. Sayers works outside normative gender conventions of the interwar years. By positing a female character who can become a detective, Sayers allows both Harriet Vane and Peter Wimsey to break and redefine social expectations of mascu...

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Publicado en:Clues: A Journal of Detection (McFarland & Company) Vol. 36; no. 2; pp. 19 - 29
Autor principal: Beresford-Sheridan, Sally
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Publicado: McFarland & Company, Inc. Fall2018
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        Women detectives in literature
        Sayers, Dorothy L. (Dorothy Leigh), 1893-1957
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