LANGUAGE IN INDIA

Strength for Today and Bright Hope for Tomorrow

Volume 12 : 7 July 2012
ISSN 1930-2940

Managing Editor: M. S. Thirumalai, Ph.D.
Editors: B. Mallikarjun, Ph.D.
         Sam Mohanlal, Ph.D.
         B. A. Sharada, Ph.D.
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         Jennifer Marie Bayer, Ph.D.
         S. M. Ravichandran, Ph.D.
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         L. Ramamoorthy, Ph.D.
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Crime Fiction and Crime Detection -
Contributions to the Society with reference to Lee Horsley’s Works

J. John Sunil Manoah, M.A, M.Phil., Ph.D. Candidate

Introduction

The literature of twentieth century has abundant crime fiction, plays, and short stories, etc. These are handled in a different way from those of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. This difference may be traced to the penal realities of the time. The reasons may include the absence of intense policing and heavy dependence on intuitive work rather than on any electronic or other gadgets. Organized processes for the detection of criminals on any routine basis were not spectacular. The systems used to detect and solve mysteries of crime were largely privatized. It looked as if the prosecution of theft was the responsibility of the injured party who might offer a reward for information or hire an agent. The authorities relied on members of the public to detect crime. The main tool of law-enforcement was the fear of horrific punishment if caught.

Lee Horsley’s Noir Fiction

This study draws from the works of Lee Horsley who has written on Literature and Politics. Her books Political Fiction and the Historical Imagination (1990), Fictions of Power in English Literature 1900-1950 (1995) and Twentieth-Century Crime Fiction (2004) present interesting explanations of how crime is dealt with in the past centuries and in the twentieth century.

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J. John Sunil Manoah, M.A., M.Phil., Ph.D. Candidate
Assistant Professor
Department Of English
Vels University
Pallavaram
Chennai
Tamilnadu, India
jjsmanoah@gmail.com
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