Sherlocking One’s Way into Empathetic and Generic (Re)birth: (In)quests of Mourning in Penelope Lively’s The Photograph (2003)

In Penelope Lively’s The Photograph, the protagonist, Glyn, discovers an old photograph which proves that his late wife Kath committed adultery years before she killed herself. As Kath becomes the accused party, Lively both exploits and subverts the formulaic structure of a Sherlock Holmes crime-sol...

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Published in:	Études Britanniques Contemporaines
Main Author:	Héloïse Lecomte
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	Presses Universitaires de la Méditerranée 2022-06-01
Subjects:	ethics trauma mourning elegy empathy Penelope Lively
Online Access:	https://journals.openedition.org/ebc/11958