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Literature Compass, 2008
Abstract This essay traces the principal currents in scholarship on Victorian detective fiction over the last century. Starting with a survey of the key critical perspectives established in the first half of the twentieth century, it moves into a more detailed discussion of prominent trends since the turn of the millennium.
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Abstract This essay traces the principal currents in scholarship on Victorian detective fiction over the last century. Starting with a survey of the key critical perspectives established in the first half of the twentieth century, it moves into a more detailed discussion of prominent trends since the turn of the millennium.
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1990
Tautologically, detective fiction like any other fiction, uses tropes of gender to represent social and moral values. Unlike other fiction, detective novels express attitudes towards individualism, relationships, geography, time and language in such a way that complex sexual and social anxieties are denied in favour of gender stereotypes.
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Tautologically, detective fiction like any other fiction, uses tropes of gender to represent social and moral values. Unlike other fiction, detective novels express attitudes towards individualism, relationships, geography, time and language in such a way that complex sexual and social anxieties are denied in favour of gender stereotypes.
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2005
Abstract The Hollow Man is not a novel that seeks to destabilize our sense of the outside world. Although the admission that ‘we’re in a detective story’ might strike us as distinctly postmodern, it is unlikely that readers of the mid-1930s would have seen Carr’s mischievous metafictional move as a challenge to their expectations about ...
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Abstract The Hollow Man is not a novel that seeks to destabilize our sense of the outside world. Although the admission that ‘we’re in a detective story’ might strike us as distinctly postmodern, it is unlikely that readers of the mid-1930s would have seen Carr’s mischievous metafictional move as a challenge to their expectations about ...
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Poetics Today, 2010
This essay explores closure in the detective story, a genre that is generally recognized as a paradigm case of strong closure and thus has a special claim to notice in a general study of narrative closure. The essay starts by outlining a theoretical model of narrative closure based on a synthesis of Barbara Herrnstein Smith's approach to the problem of
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This essay explores closure in the detective story, a genre that is generally recognized as a paradigm case of strong closure and thus has a special claim to notice in a general study of narrative closure. The essay starts by outlining a theoretical model of narrative closure based on a synthesis of Barbara Herrnstein Smith's approach to the problem of
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1991
The subtitle of this book has several purposes, but the first is to evoke a contrast between the world of high literature, as exemplified by Henry James’s short story ‘The Figure in the Carpet’, and a genre bent on disfiguring the literary drawing-room with corpses.
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The subtitle of this book has several purposes, but the first is to evoke a contrast between the world of high literature, as exemplified by Henry James’s short story ‘The Figure in the Carpet’, and a genre bent on disfiguring the literary drawing-room with corpses.
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