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For most of this chapter I shall discuss the kind of British detective writing which became established between the World Wars: what Colin Watson and Julian Symons call its ‘Golden Age’. In evoking a separate realm of literary innocence, the phrase chimes in well with W. H. Auden’s ‘Great Good Place’, C. Day Lewis’s ‘fairytale’, and George Orwell’s game of cricket; as well as with William Empson’s account of popular literature generally in this period as a ‘version of pastoral’.1
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Priestman, M. (1991). A Version of Pastoral. In: Detective Fiction and Literature. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-20987-3_9
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