From the newgate (worthington) Flashcards
What does worthington mean by Holmes being a walking calendar of crime?
Stamford admires Holmes for his encyclopedic knowledge of criminal biography. And is also the list of prisoneres for trial at an assisses (crimal court)
What is the newgate calendar?
a collection of factual criminal biographies from the 18 and19centuries derives from newgate prison. Prisoners were lodged there before trial and execution.
What did the confession in the criminals story serve as
To validate the death sentence and demonstrate the efficiency of the penal system. Reassuring that crime would be punished.
What sold the newgate pamhlets?
Thee entertainment factor, a combination of the exciting life of the criminal and the pleasures of reading about sensational crime and punishment. The texts sold on a promise of sensationalism.
Was the calandar anthologies expensive?
Yes, so they made ballad sheets that were cheaper. Printed on a single page.
Is the development of the crime fiction Linked with the rise of the novel?
Yes, Moll Flanders by Daniel Defoe, 1719 for instance
What is central in both factual and fictional narratives
The crminal.
What New form appears at the end of 18 century?
The Gothic novel
When is crime firmly established in fiction ?
By the end of 18 th century
What does a crime fiction genre require?
a crime, a criminal, and a victim, a detective and often the police
Did the early crime fiction narratives have police or official detectives
Not until the 20th century.
in the abscence of a police force, what did they have in england in the 19 th century?
criminographic texts such as the execution broadsides had a policing function in warning of the consequences of crime
When and where did they have a state-funded policing force
In France since the 17 th century, which by the 19th century had a clear detective function.
who was Eugene Francois Vidocq?
A french criminal who volunteered his services to the police while still in prison and in 1812 after several years as a double agent, became chief of the surete-a brigade of police detectives.
What did the surete (security force ) do?
Used their knowledge of the criminal underworld and quite often its methods to track down or trap their quarry.
What inspired Edgar Allen Poe and Conan Doyle about Vidoq?
His memoires
What is the newgate novel?
A small group of novels from the 1830s and 1840s which is the legacy of the newgate calendar, where the attention is still on the criminal.
What were the newgate novels accused of
Glorifying criminality and making it attractive
Why are the newgate novels important
They represent an interest in the construction and motivation of the criminal. They have an element of detection or feature a detective figure.
what is the difference between newgate accounts and newgate novels
The newgate accounts warned against crime and the newgate novels did not.
What were yellow-back novels
cheap novels bounded in yellow paper
Was detective fiction genre recognised in 1842 when Poe started writing Dupin
No
What are Dupin stories concerned about
Dupin stories
are concerned with how rational analysis combined with imagination can solve mysteries, as his introductory paragraphs to “ The Murders in the Rue Morgue ” suggest.
How is Dupin depicted by Poe`?
Dupin is depicted as a creature of the night, living in
a decaying mansion with the unnamed friend who narrates the tales, prefi guring Dr
Watson ’ s role in Doyle ’ s Sherlock Holmes stories.
Who is the narrator in “The Murders in tje Rue Morgue” and how does he go about it?
Poe ’ s narrator renders Dupin and
his methods comprehensible to the reader, a device that Dr Watson and later detective
assistants will further develop
What does the dupin stories offer`?
Dupin stories offer rational explanation of mystery or solution to a crime.
What is the difference between poe, vidoq and waters in their narratives?
These narratives are not, then, the straightforward pursuit of the criminal seen in
Vidocq ’ s M é moires or “ Waters ’ s ” Recollections but something new – an intelligent
analysis of facts that leads to a resolution, a process of inductive thought.
What becomes the later model for detective fiction
Dupin ’ s
combination of active investigation and intellect
what is sensation ficton?
Sensation fiction was a literary genre that achieved enormous popularity during the 1860s in Britain. The first and best known sensation novels were Wilkie Collins’s The Woman in White (1860), Ellen Wood’s East Lynne (1861), and Mary Braddon’s Lady Audley’s Secret (1862). The genre derived its name from the contemporary theater’s “sensation drama” noted for spectacular effects and displays of intense emotion.
When was study in pink published ?
1887
What is special about Holmes?
the narrator - companion, the urban setting, the rational deductive ” process, the case history, the scientific approach, the eccentricity of the protagonist, the collection and reading of clues, the importance of minutiae and, perhaps above all, the encyclo
pedic knowledge of crime and criminality, have all featured at some point and in some form over the long nineteenth century.
