Contents Chapter I Development of detective genre 1.1From the ancient detective literature and modern detective genre 1.2 Evolution of Detective Fiction 1.3 History, Development and Characteristics of British Detective Novel
and the Significant Representatives of the Genre 1.4 The Great and Eccentric Detectives Chapter II Sir Arthur Conan Doyle 2.1 Early life and Medical career 2.2 Literary career 2.3 Freemasonry and spiritualism Conclusion References
Introduction
The intention of this bachelor thesis is to outline and describe the style of the detective fiction and show that detective fiction, mainly its English branch, is a complicated and fully-fledged genre with all the homes of a decent literary genre. The detective fiction used to be for the lengthy time regarded as the lower fashion of literature. The works of this type were seen as not really worth writing, neither worth reading but nevertheless, they have been in a position to entice human beings ́s interest and later additionally splendid popularity. At the opening of the nineteenth century this opinion was once very familiar however in spite of these attitudes there are testimonies containing the detection of a crime as their main story line.
In the first chapter of this thesis we would like to show that the history of the detective fiction is a good deal extra complicated and longer as it might also seem. The thesis will attempt to trace the starting place of the first detective tales all through the literary records and point out the most full-size works of this genre. To set up the milestones in the detective literature would no longer be feasible without the acceptable definition of the detective fiction style and, therefore, the definition of the style and the subgenres will be provided. The first chapter will additionally attempt to distinguish the British detective style from the American genre. The comparison of these two kinds of detective literature will be primarily based on the most substantial exclusive factors of both styles, focusing in general on the English detective fiction. The following chapter will be describe in more element the characteristic traces of the English detective fiction thinking about primarily the works written at the flip of the centuries, the works of Arthur Conan Doyle, and the period between the World War I and World War II. This technology of the detective literature is recognized as the Golden Age of detective fiction. The analysis of the precise elements of the English detective style will be based on the samples from the novels and brief testimonies of the chosen authors, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Gilbert Keith Chesterton and Dame Agatha Christie. Beside the figure of the Great detective the thesis will focal point on the description of the fearless lady detective in the dangerous male world of criminals, the figure of the detective ́s companion and his characteristic in the story. Another examined issue of English detective style will be the role of the religion and the discern of the religious novice detective and sooner or later the setting of the memories that is very characteristic of the English detective genre.
The last chapter will define the traits in the adaptations of the Golden age detective memories with respect to the changes made to the persona ́s look and character traits. Further, the center of attention will be laid on the renovation of time and location of the putting of the original stories. This chapter is will be accompanied through the snap shots of the actors portraying the fictitious e book characters on screen. The photographs will factor out the variations between the earliest variations and the current variations of the stories. Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle was once a British writer and physician. He created the persona Sherlock Holmes in 1887 for A Study in Scarlet, the first of four novels and fifty-six short stories about Holmes and Dr. Watson. The Sherlock Holmes memories are milestones in the discipline of crime fiction. Doyle was a prolific writer; other than Holmes stories, his works encompass delusion and science fiction tales about Professor Challenger and humorous tales about the Napoleonic soldier Brigadier Gerard, as well as plays, romances, poetry, non-fiction, and historic novels. One of Doyle's early quick stories, ". Habakuk Jephson's Statement" (1884), helped to popularise the mystery of the Mary Celeste.
