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ENGL 211, Summer 2010 WEEK 1 A History of Literary Crime

ENGL 211, Summer 2010 “When in doubt, have a man come through a door with a gun in his hand.” -- crime + detective novelist Raymond Chandler, on writing fiction

ENGL 211, Summer 2010 “The evolution of the crime story reflects the history of crime itself” -- Ernest Mandel, Delightful Murder: A Social History of the Crime Story

ENGL 211, Summer 2010 Edgar Allen Poe’s “The Murders in the Rue Morgue” (1841) – first detective story

ENGL 211, Summer 2010 crime fiction detective fiction

ENGL 211, Summer 2010 crime fiction v. detective fiction (“puzzle element”)

ENGL 211, Summer 2010 I. Early Crime Narratives

D.L. Sayers, “Introduction Detective fiction writer and critic Dorothy L. Sayers: ,[object Object]

2 Old Testament, Hercules, Herodotus,[object Object]

the thief falsifies footprints to evade capture,[object Object]

first ‘locked-room’ mystery,[object Object]

Cain leads Abel to Death by James Tissot(1836-1902) Cain and Abel, story of “first murder”

ENGL 211, Summer 2010 - Nathaniel Hawthorne,The Scarlet Letter (1850) ,[object Object], transgression (sets boundaries of acceptable social behaviour) - criminal is marked

ENGL 211, Summer 2010 II. Crime and Revenge

ENGL 211, Summer 2010 “Revenge Tragedy” ,[object Object]

of the 17th centuries,[object Object]

ENGL 211, Summer 2010 - Subject of revenge meets a bloody death, either by execution or by his/her own hand, in anticipation of being caught

ENGL 211, Summer 2010 ,[object Object]

(1st century), originator of the revenge tragedy

violence off-stage, unlike the Elizabethean theatre

ENGL 211, Summer 2010 ,[object Object],social exclusion of criminal

ENGL 211, Summer 2010 III. “Gothic” Hauntings

ENGL 211, Summer 2010 The gothic novel (late 18th century): return of the past into the present, especially in the form of ghosts or supernatural events

ENGL 211, Summer 2010 “gothic” tradition: provides a narrative frame for “crime” as the return of a repressed wrong of the past into the world of the present

ENGL 211, Summer 2010 IV. Organized Crime + Criminals

ENGL 211, Summer 2010 1920’s prohibition-era gangsters, shift in fiction away from the individual criminal

ENGL 211, Summer 2010 The Godfather Scarface Goodfellas The Sopranos Grand Theft Auto

ENGL 211, Summer 2010 V. Discipline and Punish

ENGL 211, Summer 2010 Michel Foucault French Philosopher, critical theorist, historian,writer of Discipline and Punish (1975)

ENGL 211, Summer 2010 Classical society – pre 19th century, punishment Disciplinary society – post-19th century, surveillance

ENGL 211, Summer 2010 “The Newgate Calendar” Stories - popular between 1750-1850 - Sensationalized tales of crime and punishment

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