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The Ethics of Mystery: Detection and Dream Vision in The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare, by Melanie East, University of Toronto

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1  The classical model or “whodunit” is considered the model of the “golden age” before the American “hard-boiled” detective story developed in the 20s and 30s. The classical model follows the models of Poe and Conan Doyle where a crime is committed (usually before the narrative opens), and is solved through the presentation and ordering of clues. The emphasis is largely on analysis over action. Thursday’s chief departure from the conventions of the classic formula is that no crime initiates the action of the narrative, and thus the mystery does not revolve around the recreation of a past event. Nonetheless, the novel retains the essentials of the detective genre: a detective protagonist, a mystery, and the imperative to safeguard and restore law and order in the face of chaos.

2  Heta Pyrhönen, Murder From an Academic Angle (Columbia: Camden House, Inc. 1994), 98.

3  Michael Saler, As If: Modern Enchantment and the Literary Prehistory of Virtual Reality (New York: Oxford University Press, 2012), 60.

4  Ibid. 112.

5  Arthur Conan Doyle, “The Red-Headed League.” Sherlock Holmes (New York: Knopf Publishing Group, 2006) 224-256. 255.

6  G.K. Chesterton, “A Defence of Detective Stories,” G.K. Chesterton’s Works on the Web, ed. Martin Ward. Software Technology Research Lab. De Montfort University, Leicester, accessed June 2 2014, http://www.cse.dmu.ac.uk/~mward/gkc/books

7  G.K. Chesterton, “Nicholas Nickleby; Appreciations and Criticisms of Dickens” (ch.4) G.K. Chesterton’s Works on the Web. ed. Martin Ward. Software Technology Research Lab. De Montfort University, Leicester, accessed June 2 2014, http://www.cse.dmu.ac.uk/~mward/gkc/books

8  G.K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy, (Massachusetts: Hendrickson Publishers, Inc. 2006), 22.

9  Jean-Michel Ganteau, “Fantastic, but Truthful: The Ethics of Romance,” Cambridge Quarterly 32.3 (2003): 229.

10  Arthur Conan Doyle, “Silver Blaze” in Sherlock Holmes (New York: Knopf Publishing Group, 2006) 43-78. 45.

11  Arthur Conan Doyle, “The Copper Beeches” in Sherlock Holmes (New York: Knopf Publishing Group, 2006) 79-110. 89.

12  Joshua Landy, How To Do Things With Fictions, (Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press 2012), 59.

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