Conundrums for the Long Week-End

England, Dorothy L. Sayers, and Lord Peter Wimsey

Fiction & Literature, Literary Theory & Criticism
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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.

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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.

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