Whose Trauma? Dorothy L. Sayers's Use of Shell Shock and the Role of Memory in Interwar Detective Fiction.

This essay places interwar understandings of shell shock in conversation with Dorothy L. Sayers's Whose Body? (1923), arguing that Sayers utilizes the genre of detective fiction to revise cultural conceptions of shell shock as a marker of cowardice, situating it instead as a valuable reminder of the...

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Publicado en:Clues: A Journal of Detection (McFarland & Company) Vol. 38; no. 2; pp. 51 - 61
Autor principal: Hendrickson, Kathryn
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Publicado: McFarland & Company, Inc. Fall2020
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