ENGL 2706Y Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Panopticism, Sidney Paget, Poetic Justice
8 Oct 2015
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The enlightenment: secularization putting their trust in god to punish the criminals, new myth of law and order imposing a sense of law, criminal as object rather than subject new interest in detection. 1001 nights: chinese sinophone literature, francois eugene vidocq, m. dupin (poe, dickens, wilkie collins. Incredible sense of mania when public attention was attracted: after holmes was killed london went into mourning. I must save my mind for better things, even if it means i must bury my pocketbook with him why doyle killed holmes. Giving the readers a complete world familiarity about this urban centre that doyle created. Re-enchantment of modernity: modern equivalent of fairytales (g. k. chesterton) [type text: the marvelous in the everyday, scientific rationalism, methods of diagnostic medicine. Doyle"s innovation: doyle perfecting detective fiction, the clue as central literary device, parity between detective and reader; fair chance , detective fiction as sporting event .
