Unit 15 A famous detective A famous detective Sherlock Holmes.
19th Century Detective Genre
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Why did nineteenth century readers enjoy detective stories?
Take notes and turn into a paragraph at the start of your essay.
If you want to write in more detail, you can look at these articles:
www.enotes.com/nineteenth-century-criticism/detective-fiction
http://www.crimeculture.com/Contents/VictorianCrime.html
If you finish, make detailed notes about the character of Sherlock Holmes from
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sherlock_Holmes
If you finish, make detailed notes about the character of Sherlock Holmes from
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sherlock_Holmes
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Nineteenth Century• 1800 – 1900• Period of technological, scientific, industrial
transformation.• Period of huge growth in society.
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Emile Gaboriau
• Emile Gaboriau• Monsieur Lecoq• “The Self-Made
Detective”
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Edgar Allan Poe
• Edgar Allan Poe• The Murders in the Rue
Morgue • C. Auguste Dupin
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Pattern of Poe’s stories
• a strange crime takes place
• a brilliant detective investigates
• the detective solves the crime through logical reasoning
• the criminal is unmasked
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Social Change• fears about menace of
crime• industrial revolution
altered towns and cities• by 1851 half of Britain’s
population lived in an urban area
• theft of property and organised crime became a concern
• Metropolitan Police established in 1828
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Type of detective
• interest in sciences• creation of scientist-
detectives• solves crimes by use of
logic and latest scientific investigative methods
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Why did nineteenth century readers enjoy detective stories?
Turn your notes into a paragraph at the start of your essay.
If you want to write in more detail, you can look at these articles:
www.enotes.com/nineteenth-century-criticism/detective-fiction
http://www.crimeculture.com/Contents/VictorianCrime.html
If you finish, make detailed notes about the character of Sherlock Holmes from
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sherlock_Holmes
If you finish, make detailed notes about the character of Sherlock Holmes from
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sherlock_Holmes