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Literary Eras (Golden Era (1920s-1930s (Interwar), Agatha Christie, "…
Literary Eras
Golden Era
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Agatha Christie, "whodunnits"
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Typically in small, enclosed environments, such as manor houses. Countryside
Prose:1700-1800
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Industrial Revolution:
More people in cities, society becoming increasingly urban
Led to more crime
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Awful conditions, drinking/drugs, may have led to more crime
Tom Jones, by Henry Fielding
One of the first crime novels, written in 1749
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18th century, crime subgenre appears:
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19th century
Explosion in novels (of all types), lots to do with crime
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Charles Dickens
Was very interested in crime, the causes, the Underworld, mystery. Could be said to be the father of crime novels
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Postmodern
1950s onwards, though is not a fixed time period, not all writing since then is postmodern
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Emergence of lots of new sub-genres, authors deliberately playing with conventions
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Postmodern authors often reject outright meanings in their work in favour of multiple interpretations or sometimes no meaning (unlike modernism which focuses on the quest for meaning)
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15th-16th century
Medieval mystery and morality plays (poetry and drama, no novels yet)
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Begins to be an explanation into the causes of crime (up to then it was black and white, either good or evil). Starts to say why people committed crimes
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Very early crime writing
The Bible
Cain and Abel
Elements within this: punishment, attempt to conceal the crime, family dispute, victim, motive (though motive is never explicitly said)
Cain was a farmer while Abel was a shepherd. They both gave their sacrifices to God but Abel was favoured more. Cain murdered Abel and was punished by being forced to walk the earth
Ancient Greek
Greek Theatre-Tragedy
Almost always ended in death, typically had family disputes, relationships, pride, revenge and fate, as well as a fatal flaw (hamartia)
So, has a lot of similarities with crime today. Though in crime today there is more redemption on the whole
Morality, punishment, judgement
Mythology
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Tantalus
Killed his son, Pelops, and offered him as a sacrifice to the gods. Tantalus was punished by living eternally in Tartarus in a pool of water which he can never drink and with a fruit branch which is always out of his reach.
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Renaissance-17th Century
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Lots of drama with many theatres, was cheap, didn't need to be literate to understand. Weekly entertainment
After this period, puritans shut down theatres because they thought it would corrupt the audience. This led to a long period of little crime in drama, so it was primarily poetry (novels hadn't been invented by this point)
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Poetry 1600-1900
Paradise Lost- Milton
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Story of Adam and Eve and therefore the fall of man (Lucifer tempted Eve with the apple). Eve caused the fall of man according to this
Eve's crime is the biggest crime ever (leads to all other crimes) and God gave the greatest punishment
19th Century
Romantics
Believed in individual liberty, nature, personal choices
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Late 20th century, early 21st century
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