The History of Mystery Fiction by https://padlet.com/emilyrjurgensmeyer/fzqjod458bxqtnwd en-us 2022-12-05 19:17:09 UTC 2022-12-07 19:59:54 UTC hello@padlet.com 1770s- Newgate Calendar emilyrjurgensmeyer https://padlet.com/emilyrjurgensmeyer/fzqjod458bxqtnwd/wish/2411383497 The Newgate Calendar is a bulletin based in London that highlighted and dramatized everyday stories of crime. It gave readers the sense that crime is everwhere. ]]> 2022-12-06 23:19:11 UTC https://padlet.com/emilyrjurgensmeyer/fzqjod458bxqtnwd/wish/2411383497 1810s-1820s The Penny Dreadfuls emilyrjurgensmeyer https://padlet.com/emilyrjurgensmeyer/fzqjod458bxqtnwd/wish/2411383957
  • Gothic, gory, ghosts, ordinary people
    • The Penny Dreadfuls, too, gave readers the sense that crime is everywhere. 
    ]]>     2022-12-06 23:20:02 UTC https://padlet.com/emilyrjurgensmeyer/fzqjod458bxqtnwd/wish/2411383957     1830s- Newgate Novels emilyrjurgensmeyer https://padlet.com/emilyrjurgensmeyer/fzqjod458bxqtnwd/wish/2411384379 The Newgate Novels added a moral factor to crime- the good guys win and the bad guys lose.
    • Oliver Twist
    ]]>     2022-12-06 23:20:46 UTC https://padlet.com/emilyrjurgensmeyer/fzqjod458bxqtnwd/wish/2411384379     1809-1849- Edgar Allan Poe emilyrjurgensmeyer https://padlet.com/emilyrjurgensmeyer/fzqjod458bxqtnwd/wish/2411384985
  • Father of the detective story
  • His detective August Dupin is very similar to Sherlock Holmes - governed by logic, reason, method
    • ]]>     2022-12-06 23:21:52 UTC https://padlet.com/emilyrjurgensmeyer/fzqjod458bxqtnwd/wish/2411384985     1860s-1870s- Sensation Novels emilyrjurgensmeyer https://padlet.com/emilyrjurgensmeyer/fzqjod458bxqtnwd/wish/2411385253
  • Plot driven, violent, interest in secrets
  • Based on real cases
  • Proto-feminist - based around strong women
  • Not morally based

    • ]]>     2022-12-06 23:22:23 UTC https://padlet.com/emilyrjurgensmeyer/fzqjod458bxqtnwd/wish/2411385253     1868- Police Procedurals emilyrjurgensmeyer https://padlet.com/emilyrjurgensmeyer/fzqjod458bxqtnwd/wish/2411387002
  • The first police procedural is The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins
  • Police procedurals become a hit again after WWII 
    • Gives notion that good guys win, bad guys lose
    • During the times of McCarthyism 
  • Isabella Maldonado's The Cipher 2020

    • ]]>     2022-12-06 23:25:27 UTC https://padlet.com/emilyrjurgensmeyer/fzqjod458bxqtnwd/wish/2411387002     1887/1891- Emergence of Sherlock Holmes emilyrjurgensmeyer https://padlet.com/emilyrjurgensmeyer/fzqjod458bxqtnwd/wish/2411389886 Arthur Conan Doyle publishes his first novella, "The Study in Scarlet," in 1887, but he is not made popular until the publication of his short story, "The Scandal in Bohemia," in 1891.
    • Arthur Conan Doyle published his short stories in installments in The Strand Magazine.
    • Patterns:
      • Red herrings
      • Focus
      • Ennui
      • The sense of play in adventure
      • Strong denouement
      • Melodrama
      • Genteel atmosphere
    Arthur Conan Doyle gives us back the detective: the clear hero, restores order

    ]]>     2022-12-06 23:30:01 UTC https://padlet.com/emilyrjurgensmeyer/fzqjod458bxqtnwd/wish/2411389886     1894- The New Woman Arises emilyrjurgensmeyer https://padlet.com/emilyrjurgensmeyer/fzqjod458bxqtnwd/wish/2411390880
  • Women evolving, feminism, stepping out
  • Focus on independence
  • Irene Adler from Arthur Conan Doyle's "A Scandal in Bohemia"
    • ]]>     2022-12-06 23:31:44 UTC https://padlet.com/emilyrjurgensmeyer/fzqjod458bxqtnwd/wish/2411390880     1920s/1930s- The Tabloids Focus on Crime emilyrjurgensmeyer https://padlet.com/emilyrjurgensmeyer/fzqjod458bxqtnwd/wish/2411391448 Agatha Christie, James M. Cain, and many other crime fiction authors base their stories on true crime]]> 2022-12-06 23:32:40 UTC https://padlet.com/emilyrjurgensmeyer/fzqjod458bxqtnwd/wish/2411391448 1918-1939- Golden Age of Detective Fiction emilyrjurgensmeyer https://padlet.com/emilyrjurgensmeyer/fzqjod458bxqtnwd/wish/2411392002
  • Britain
  • In between world wars- used as an escape
  • Featured: 
    • Margaret Allingham
    • John Dickinson Carr
    • Dorothy Sayers
    • Agatha Christie
    • GK Chesterton
  • Characteristics:
    • Clue puzzles
    • Crime as a rational, deductive process
    • Amateur detectives

    • ]]>     2022-12-06 23:33:34 UTC https://padlet.com/emilyrjurgensmeyer/fzqjod458bxqtnwd/wish/2411392002     Female Detective Fiction Writers Emerge! emilyrjurgensmeyer https://padlet.com/emilyrjurgensmeyer/fzqjod458bxqtnwd/wish/2411392465
  • Because crime literature was considered low status, it was easy for women to enter the field
  • Time of change and modernization of women’s roles during golden age and after World War II

    • ]]>     2022-12-06 23:34:18 UTC https://padlet.com/emilyrjurgensmeyer/fzqjod458bxqtnwd/wish/2411392465     1928- The Detection Club emilyrjurgensmeyer https://padlet.com/emilyrjurgensmeyer/fzqjod458bxqtnwd/wish/2411392589
  • The Detection Club is an organization founded in 1928, established by a group of mystery writers in Britain including:
    • Agatha Christie
    • Dorothy Sayers
    • John Dickenson Carr
    • GK Chesterton
  • They held secretive and elitist meetings, had secret rituals, and shared their plots
  • They had their own set of commandments for mystery writing
  • Example of play fever experienced in the 1920s
    • ]]>     2022-12-06 23:34:32 UTC https://padlet.com/emilyrjurgensmeyer/fzqjod458bxqtnwd/wish/2411392589     1920s Hardboiled Fiction emilyrjurgensmeyer https://padlet.com/emilyrjurgensmeyer/fzqjod458bxqtnwd/wish/2411394634
  • America's response to the Golden Age in Britain 
  • Featured: 
    • Dashiell Hammett
    • James M. Cain
    • Raymond Chandler
    • John Carroll Daly- Pioneer of hardboiled fiction
  • Characteristics:
    • Cynical sensibility
    • Understated, ironic, terse, wisecracking language
    • Moral ambiguity
    • Emphasis on sex and violence
    • Gritty and transgressive settings and situations
    • Mistrust of rich and powerful
  • Separates American literature from British- realism, blunt, does not romanticize life
  • American Nationalism
  • Walter Mosley’s Devil in a Blue Dress resembles hardboiled fiction
    • Walter Mosley is one of the black authors we studied, he based his stories off his real-life experiences
    • ]]>     2022-12-06 23:37:52 UTC https://padlet.com/emilyrjurgensmeyer/fzqjod458bxqtnwd/wish/2411394634     1930s-1940s – Psychological Thrillers emilyrjurgensmeyer https://padlet.com/emilyrjurgensmeyer/fzqjod458bxqtnwd/wish/2411396230
  • During WWII
  • Features the psychopath:
    • Egocentric and antisocial personality
    • Criminal tendencies
    • Deceptive
    • charming
    • “Suffering soul”
  • Featured authors:
    • Cornell Woolrich
    • Patricia Highsmith
    • Gillian Flynn
  • Characteristics:
    • Voyeurism
    • Suspense
    • Prospect emotions of hope and fear
  • Features the Confidence man
    • Juxtaposes the English gentleman 
  • We see the influence of Ripley, one of our con men, all throughout literature 
    • Jay Gatsby from F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby

    • ]]>     2022-12-06 23:40:40 UTC https://padlet.com/emilyrjurgensmeyer/fzqjod458bxqtnwd/wish/2411396230     1946 - Film Noir emilyrjurgensmeyer https://padlet.com/emilyrjurgensmeyer/fzqjod458bxqtnwd/wish/2411397051
  • How the french described Hollywood films released 1940-1944 after World War II
  • Notable Film Noir Films:
    • Double Indemnity
    • The Maltese Falcon
    • The woman in the Window
  • Characteristics:
    • Complex narrative structure
    • Fascination with urban spaces
    • Femme fatale
    • Interest in marginalized spaces
    • Chiaroscuro and low-key lighting
    • Elaborate camera work

    • ]]>     2022-12-06 23:42:03 UTC https://padlet.com/emilyrjurgensmeyer/fzqjod458bxqtnwd/wish/2411397051     1970s - Reemergence of Film Noir – Neo Noir emilyrjurgensmeyer https://padlet.com/emilyrjurgensmeyer/fzqjod458bxqtnwd/wish/2411397175 2022-12-06 23:42:18 UTC https://padlet.com/emilyrjurgensmeyer/fzqjod458bxqtnwd/wish/2411397175 Historical Fiction emilyrjurgensmeyer https://padlet.com/emilyrjurgensmeyer/fzqjod458bxqtnwd/wish/2411398458
  • Although historical fiction has been around for ages, in the past 20 years historical fiction has become extremely popular
  • Why?
    • As it feels the world is becoming bleak, going back to the past can act as an escape
    • Offers readers the feeling that problems have always been around, not just now, as a sort of comfort
    • We have a drive to go back to the past and see what we did wrong that led us here (and how to fix it)
    • ]]>     2022-12-06 23:44:27 UTC https://padlet.com/emilyrjurgensmeyer/fzqjod458bxqtnwd/wish/2411398458     Women in Crime Fiction emilyrjurgensmeyer https://padlet.com/emilyrjurgensmeyer/fzqjod458bxqtnwd/wish/2411400268
  • We see women in crime fiction with the rise of The New Woman in 1894
  • Women were very present during the Golden Age
  • We have studied:
    • Agatha christie 
    • Patricia Highsmith
    • Donna Tartt
    • Gillian Flynn 
    • Isabella Maldonado (who is also a writer of color)
  • Women play a bigger role in crime fiction today than ever
    • Contemporary female crime writers-
      • Don’t believe in heroes
      • Light on gun play and body count
      • Focus on psychology of murder- the why

    • ]]>     2022-12-06 23:47:27 UTC https://padlet.com/emilyrjurgensmeyer/fzqjod458bxqtnwd/wish/2411400268     Writers of Color emilyrjurgensmeyer https://padlet.com/emilyrjurgensmeyer/fzqjod458bxqtnwd/wish/2411401602
  • Chester Himes
    • Spent time in Prison and learned how to write
  • Walter Mosley 
    • "First" black investigator in crime fiction
    • Themes:
      • Black men’s struggle for power and respect
      • Black migration from deep south- disappointment and heartbreak
      • Re-working of hardboiled elements
      • Male friendship
    • Based his writing off of his own experiences
  • Isabella Maldonado
    • Unfortunately, as we learned from “Changing the Face of Crime Fiction,” authors of color are still struggling to be properly recognized in the crime-writing community today. 

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