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The Idea of Education in Golden Age Detective Fiction

The Idea of Education in Golden Age Detective Fiction

Dalrymple, Roger
Green, Andrew

Paperback

Series: Literature and Education

Literary CriticismGeneral Education

ISBN10: 0367725045
ISBN13: 9780367725044
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Nov 28 2025
Pages: 142
Weight: 0.52
Height: 0.35 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

This book presents an exploration of how Golden Age detective fiction encounters educational ideas, particularly those forged by the transformative educational policymaking of the interwar period.

Charting the educational policy and provision of the era, and referring to works by Agatha Christie, Dorothy L. Sayers, Edmund Crispin and others, this book explores the educational capacity and agency of literary detectives, the learning spaces of the genre and the kinds of knowledge that are made available to inquirers both inside and outside the text. It is argued that the genre explores a range of contemporaneous propositions on the balance between academic curriculum and practicum, length of school life and the value of lifelong learning. This book's closing chapter considers the continuing pedagogic value for contemporary classrooms of engaging with the genre as a rich discursive and imaginative space for exploring educational ideas.

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