Ethan Lewis
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Conundrums for the Long Week-End: England, Dorothy L. Sayers, and Lord Peter Wimsey
Robert Kuhn McGregor, Ethan Lewis
Lord Peter Wimsey’s enduring presence and popularity are a tribute to his creator, Dorothy L. Sayers. In this book, McGregor and 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. Scholars of the Modern Age, fans of the mystery genre, and admirers of Sayers’s fiction are sure to appreciate this incisive examination of the literary, social, and historical context of the author’s most popular work.
