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Writing for the Masses

Christine Colón
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Christine A. Coln
detective
Detective Fiction
detective fiction analysis
Detective Plot
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Fair Play Rule
fiction
gaudy
Gaudy Night
George Landow
Great Divide
Highbrow Literature
Krook's Death
Krook’s Death
literary criticism
Middlebrow Author
Middlebrow Writer
night
Prophetic Pattern
public intellectuals
Real Assent
religious drama studies
Sage Writing
Sayers's Career
Sayers's Translation
Sayers’s Career
Sayers’s Translation
Set 14
Tennyson's Ideas
Tennyson's Portrayal
Tennyson's Works
Tennyson’s Ideas
Tennyson’s Portrayal
Tennyson’s Works
twentieth century British culture
Victorian literature
Victorian Sage
Victorian tradition in modern writing
Women's Higher Education
Women’s Higher Education
Writing Detective Fiction
Young Man

Product details

  • ISBN 9781138093911
  • Weight: 630g
  • Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
  • Publication Date: 20 Dec 2017
  • Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
  • Publication City/Country: GB
  • Product Form: Hardback
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Description

In Writing for the Masses: Dorothy L. Sayers and the Victorian Literary Tradition Dr. Christine A. Colón explores how Sayers carefully negotiates the complexities of early twentieth century literary culture by embracing a specifically Victorian literary tradition of writing to engage a wide audience. Using a variety of examples from Sayers’s detective fiction, essays, and religious drama, Dr. Colón charts Sayers’s development as a writer whose intense desire to connect with her audience eventually compels her to embrace the role of a Victorian sage for her own age. Ultimately, the Victorian literary tradition not only provides her with an empowering model for her own work as she struggles as a writer of detective fiction to balance her integrity as an artist with her desire to reach a mass audience but also facilitates her growth as a public intellectual as she strives to help her nation recover from the devastation of World War II.
About Christine Colon
Christine A. Colón is Associate Professor of English at Wheaton College, Illinois. She received her doctorate in English from the University of California at Davis and has published a number of articles on Romantic and Victorian authors, a monograph entitled Joanna Baillie and the Art of Moral Influence (Peter Lang 2009), and a popular work entitled Singled Out: Why Celibacy Must Be Reinvented in Today’s Church (Brazos 2009), which won an award of merit from Christianity Today in 2010.

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