ENGL 335 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Detective Fiction, Eugenics, Primogeniture
13 Jun 2016
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Geography of hounds - takes place in countryside town/devon; moors; also takes place in london. Geography is digestive; recycling that goes on, takes things and spits them back out. Countryside - population is very small, while the metropolitan is overly populated. They look at a map - there are a few farms further along, everything is far away. Logic and science prevail in london - scientifically analyzing the walking stick; it"s where they use logic and rationality, and they all apply. Dislocating the whole novel to the countryside limits the number of villains. Paths they pursue in london that are all fruitless. Maybe ten people in devon setting that helps you pick out who is the bad guy; creates stricture of fiction. If you can map it, you can control it; where there is a maplessness in london. Whereas in the case of devon, they produce a map, look at it, think about the possibilities.
