Abstract
This essay traces the development of crime fiction in the work of Sir Walter Scott, James Hogg and Robert Louis Stevenson, arguing that Scott shows murder as embedded in culture and disruptive of community but contains the disruption within an Enlightened rationality, whereas Hogg explores its impact on the community, the individual and nature. Stevenson also shows the traumatic effect of crime but his focus on the individual turns Hogg’s supernatural into the psychological.
Original language | English |
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Journal | Clues - A Journal of Detection |
Volume | 26 |
Issue number | 2 |
Publication status | Published - 2008 |