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dc.contributor.advisorFalke, Cassandra
dc.contributor.authorHovstøl, Charlotte
dc.date.accessioned2023-08-17T05:34:02Z
dc.date.available2023-08-17T05:34:02Z
dc.date.issued2023-05-11en
dc.description.abstractThis thesis explores the representation of crime and fear in detective stories. I will particularly look at this in Arthur Conan Doyle’s A Study in Scarlet and Robert Louis Stevenson’s The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde. Three main concepts will be used to analyze these texts: the detective novel as a genre, the presence of an unreliable police force, and the elements of a sensation novel. These two novels were released only one year apart, during a time when the police force and the detective department at Scotland Yard were only a few decades old and were still trying to gain the trust of the public. They were also released just a few years after the ‘beginning’ of the modern-day detective novel, and right after the peak of the sensation novel. These elements are therefore all relatively new concepts at the time of the novels’ publishing. Through this analysis of the creation or reduction of fearful elements, I intend to show that although these authors use the same elements in their novels, they are able to create very different relationships to crime. The main aim of this thesis is then to show that where Doyle uses the detective genre, the unreliable police force, and the sensation novel, in order to draw the attention away from crime, Stevenson uses these same elements in order to achieve the opposite.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10037/29991
dc.language.isoengen_US
dc.publisherUiT Norges arktiske universitetno
dc.publisherUiT The Arctic University of Norwayen
dc.rights.holderCopyright 2023 The Author(s)
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0en_US
dc.rightsAttribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0)en_US
dc.subject.courseIDENG-3983
dc.subjectVDP::Humaniora: 000::Litteraturvitenskapelige fag: 040::Engelsk litteratur: 043en_US
dc.subjectVDP::Humanities: 000::Literary disciplines: 040::English literature: 043en_US
dc.subjectDetective fictionen_US
dc.subjectSensation novelen_US
dc.subjectA Study in Scarleten_US
dc.subjectArthur Conan Doyleen_US
dc.subjectThe Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hydeen_US
dc.subjectRobert Louis Stevensonen_US
dc.subjectFearen_US
dc.subjectCrimeen_US
dc.subjectPolice Forceen_US
dc.titleFear in Detective Stories: The representation of crime as threatening or nonthreatening in A Study in Scarlet and The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hydeen_US
dc.typeMastergradsoppgavenor
dc.typeMaster thesiseng


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