setting of crime fiction
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- Created on: 23-05-20 13:04
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- setting of crime fiction
- criminal underworlds
- Brighton Rock
- 18th C and 19th C when this style was big
- industrial revolution
- Dickens wrote a lot about this
- impoverished setting
- evident parallel
- grime and squalor
- immoral behaviour
- evident parallel
- people often linked to animals
- remote/isolated settings
- displacing the action from the metropolis and the heart of human society
- more emphasis on psychological aspects concerned with a crime
- mental disturbance
- isolation
- middle class/ domestic settings
- Atonement
- golden age detective fiction
- the potential of a transgression lodged between a veneer of civility
- this grew in war as violence grew closer
- close community
- betrayal
- geographical location creates isolation
- the apparent comfort and reassurance serve as a comparison to the violence of crime
- urban settings
- cities
- anonymity
- people do not know each other
- historically cities experienced more crime
- criminal underworlds
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