Terms 1
A new genre that rises in 18th century England
What is the novel?
The hesitation of confronting the seemingly supernatural
What is the fantastic?
"All these things, with some very surprizing Incidents in some new Adventures of my own, for ten Years more, I may perhaps give a farther Account of hereafter."
What is Robinson Crusoe?
the killer of William Frankenstein
Who is Frankenstein's monster?
The protagonist of "Speech Sounds"
Who is Rye?
Genre mostly invented by Conan Doyle, also called "clue puzzle"
What is the classic detective genre?
The context/setting in which an author lived and worked
What is the authorial world?
"These strange narrations inspired me with strange feelings. Was man, indeed, at once so powerful, so virtuous, and magnificent, yet so vicious and base?"
What is Frankenstein?
The type of hat that Mary Morstan wears when she meets Holmes
What is a turban?
Daily Double! The builder of the Whatsitsname
Who is Hadi?
The defining device of the detective novel
What is the clue?
Daily Double! Elements within a story/how a story is told
What is the plot?
"I made it complete so it wouldn't be treated as trash, so it would be respected like other dead people and given a proper burial."
What is Frankenstein in Baghdad?
The name Crusoe gives to his first home on the island
What is his castle?
The setting of A Small Place by Jamaica Kincaid
What is Antigua?
What is the uncanny?
The self-contained unity of a work: character, setting, style
The aesthetic world
"There was something strangely incongruous in this Oriental figure framed in the commonplace doorway of a third-rate suburban dwelling-house."
What is The Sign of Four?
The key word used to describe London, the canals, and Agra
What is a labyrinth?
The framing device used in Frankenstein
What is letter writing?
Genre often set in castles or wild spaces, focused on hidden truths
What is the gothic?
Use of a style that marks something as corresponding to reality
What is formal realism?
"With the help of God and of heaven, I will finally take revenge on all the criminals. I will finally bring about justice on earth."
What is Frankenstein in Baghdad?
The group in charge of monitoring unusual crimes, urban legends, and superstitious rumors and predicting future ones
What is the Department of Tracking and Pursuit?
Two types of sequencing used in Robinson Crusoe
What is enumeration, accounting, or chronological ordering?