Jessica Gildersleeve is Professor of English Literature at the University of Southern Queensland. She is the author and editor of eight books, including Elizabeth Bowen and the Writing of Trauma: The Ethics of Survival (2014), Elizabeth Bowen: Theory, Thought, and Things (2019, with Patricia Juliana Smith) and, most recently, Screening the Gothic in Australia and New Zealand: Contemporary Antipodean Film and Television (2022, with Kate Cantrell).
Jessica Gildersleeve
Contributions
Commemorating Forgetting: 1922 and Golden Age Detective Fiction
Detective fiction of the 1920s and 1930s, the genre’s “Golden Age,” is concerned with a desire to mitigate the moral injustices of the war, symbolized by the solution of the crime and the resolution of the narrative.