Trott, Dr Sarah

• Lecturer in American Studies and History
• School of Humanities, Philosophy and Religion

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Article

Trott, Sarah ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7622-2289 (2021) “Remembrance, alas, is a tricky business”: Memory and Biography in the Established Account of Raymond Chandler’s World War One Experience. European Journal of American Culture, 40 (1). pp. 45-62.

Trott, Sarah ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7622-2289 (2013) A ‘Lost Crowd’: Reconfiguring the Harlem Renaissance as a Post-War ‘Lost Generation’. Comparative American Studies An International Journal, 11 (4). pp. 434-447.

Book Section

Trott, Sarah ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7622-2289 (2021) Los Angeles as a No Man’s Land: First World War Trauma in Raymond Chandler’s Detective Fiction. In: Kramer, Kaley, Kramer, Kaley and Evans, Anne-Marie, Evans, Anne-Marie, (eds.) Time and the City in Literary Imagination. Literary Urban Studies . Palgrave, pp. 189-205

Trott, Sarah ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7622-2289 (2013) The Detective as Veteran: Recasting American Hard-Boiled Writing as a Literature of Traumatic War Experience. In: McVeigh, Steve and Cooper, Nicola, (eds.) Men after war. Routledge Research in Gender and History . Routledge

Book

Trott, Sarah ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7622-2289 (2016) War Noir: Raymond Chandler and the Hard-Boiled Detective as Veteran in American Fiction. Jackson, Mississippi, University of Mississippi Press

Other

Trott, Sarah ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7622-2289 (2025) American studies degrees are declining in popularity – but the subject has never been more important. The Conversation.

Ridon, Manjeet, Shaw, Debra Benita, Wallace, Diana, Marshall, Emily Zobel, Labarta, Inés Gregori and Trott, Sarah ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7622-2289 (2024) Booker prize 2024: the six shortlisted books reviewed by our experts. The Conversation.