Crime in Fiction
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- Why did stories of criminals become irresistible for novelists? Starting with works like Moll Flanders in the eighteenth century, this lecture goes on to examine the role of criminals in Dickens, keen to let his readers and characters experience what Pip in Great Expectations calls ‘the taint of crime’. To what ends?
How does the recent genre fiction of novelists like Patricia Highsmith and Ruth Rendell return us to the transgressive pleasures of Defoe’s criminal autobiographies?
A lecture by John Mullan
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I really enjoyed this presentation and inspired me to go out and visit a bookshop . Thank you .
Epic, thank you.
Excellent
Really enjoyed it!!!!
How can you post a comment 23 minutes ago when the video is an hour long? smh
Apropos, Muriel Spark: Is Miss Brodie of The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie a kind of murderer, in a less than literal way? That is one of my favourite novels, whereas Ian McEwan is my favourite author, so I thank you for this video! :)
The overviews these lectures provide.....
Writing Crime novels may work best when you lived it or grew up around it...at least it's a advantage edge.
Ian McEwan. He may put a lot of crimes in his novels but it doesn't stop them being incredibly boring. And contemporary? They read like (non-modernist) English novels from 1924. It took me two pages of "Amsterdam" to stop reading it, the dullest opening of any novel I've read.