ENG 2120 Study Guide - Crime Fiction, Edwardian Era, Canadian Studies
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Have shifted from plot driven themes to character analysis. Tv influenced fiction and refocused it on the police force. It"s also a lot harder to believe in today"s society that private detectives could get away with what they"re doing. Since novels follow more on character analysis, we get to know the suspect very early on. Moves beyond what the detective novels focused on (who the criminal was) to bringing the criminal to justice and how he did it. Whodunnit and private eye novels are eliminated, they"re still out there, but the main is crime fiction. Victorian era, the intellectual game of it all, the detective. Whodunnit, the drawing room mystery, edwardian period, a comedy of manners, very interesting characters. Hardboiled crime detectives, first point where we see detectives who are frequently at odds with the police, breaking the law, the american genre. Out of everywhere we get the crime novel.