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Pretenses of Innocence Crime, Detection, and Care in Victorian Realism and Sensation Fiction /

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Pretenses of Innocence Crime, Detection, and Care in Victorian Realism and Sensation Fiction // Michael Perry Hatch.
Author:	Hatch, Michael Perry,
Description:	1 electronic resource (307 pages)
Notes:	Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 85-06, Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertations Abstracts International85-06A.
Subject:	Literature. -
Online resource:	https://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=30688703
ISBN:	9798381159400

Pretenses of Innocence Crime, Detection, and Care in Victorian Realism and Sensation Fiction /
Hatch, Michael Perry,

Pretenses of Innocence Crime, Detection, and Care in Victorian Realism and Sensation Fiction /Michael Perry Hatch. - 1 electronic resource (307 pages)

Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 85-06, Section: A.

Criminal detection emerged as a significant literary element in mid-Victorian Realist and Sensation novels. These fictional detectives, much like their 20th-century successors, promised clarity and resolution as they solved crimes, caught criminals, helped victims, and explored complex narrative and social connections as they did so. However, while these fictional detectives may solve crimes and mysteries, they rarely provide the narrative resolution of later fictional detectives.This dissertation examines how Victorian Realist and Sensation fiction subverts the expectations of the detective plot: those the detective pursues as criminals may be the real victims when the real villains - those in privileged and protected positions - persist without official consequence. Rather than provide narrative resolution, the detectives instead contribute to literary demonstrations of how corrupt characters in positions of social responsibility or privilege exploit their positions in social institutions, such as the law, the family, philanthropy, etc., that contribute to the victimization and criminalization of other characters. The literature responds to these conditions with the formation of care communities, or smaller social organizations where individuals can attend to these needs of one another. Rather than strike out at these corrupt social institutions' pretenses of innocence, care communities provide havens for the abused and opportunities at recuperation, repentance, and forgiveness. Demonstrations of the ability or inability of detection, care, and social corruption to resolve social problems provide nuanced representations of what it means to help or harm and the social consequences of each.This study focuses on 3 novels with investigative plots. First, Charles Dickens' Bleak House (1852-3) as an example of Realist fiction that critiques how legal and philanthropic endeavors can be exploitative and contribute to crime and the social problems they are designed to prevent. Second, Ellen Wood's East Lynne (1861) as an example of Sensation fiction and how mismanaged domestic spaces can lead to crime and wrongdoing in other social spaces. Third, Wilkie Collins' The Moonstone (1868) as an example of Sensation fiction turning into detective fiction that considers how ingrained social and cultural values and practices initiate and perpetuate crime and wrongdoing.

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ISBN: 9798381159400Subjects--Topical Terms:

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