ENGLISH 158 - Crime and Punishment in English Fiction

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Harvard University

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From thieves and murderers to bigamists and terrorists, criminals appear with unusual frequency in English fiction. Crime narratives from the eighteenth through the twentieth centuries reveal changing literary conventions as well as changing ideas about the causes and consequences of criminal acts. Special attention to the implications of criminality for literary form, such as the ways in which novels incorporate and imitate legal documents and modes such as confessions, cases, and trials. Other topics include the working of the criminal mind; the reliability of testimony and evidence; the connections among gender, empire, and crime; and the relationship between law and literature. Authors include Defoe, Dickens, Stevenson, Doyle, Conrad, Peter Carey, and Margaret Atwood.

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4.00

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Lecture

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www.harvard.edu

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(617) 495-1000

Regional Accreditation:

New England Association of Schools and Colleges

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Semester

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