Neo-Victorian felony – Crime narratives in Graeme Macrae Burnet’s His Bloody Project and Ian McGuire’s The North Water

Q4 Arts and Humanities
Ars Aeterna Pub Date : 2021-12-01 DOI:10.2478/aa-2021-0008
P. Chalupský
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Abstract The neo-Victorian novel has been one of the most significant branches of contemporary British historical fiction for the past three decades. Thanks to works like A. S. Byatt’s Possession, Sarah Waters’ trilogy Tipping the Velvet, Affinity and Fingersmith and Michel Faber’s The Crimson Petal and the White, the genre has gained not only considerable popularity among readers, but also almost a canonical literary status. Although recent neo-Victorian fiction has been trying to find some new ways in which the genre could avoid stereotypical narratives, it still retains its most determining idiosyncrasies. One of them is an interest in the undersides of Victorian society, including the themes of violence and criminality, which is why these novels often resort to the genre of crime and detective fiction. This is also the case of Graeme Macrae Burnet’s His Bloody Project (2015) and Ian McGuire’s The North Water (2016), both historical novels set in Victorian Britain which were, respectively, shortlisted and longlisted for the 2016 Man Booker Prize. This paper attempts to show the different manners in which these two novels employ various forms of crime narratives so as to achieve their goal of presenting convincing and seemingly authentic insights into the more obscure aspects of the Victorian era.
新维多利亚重罪——格雷姆·麦克雷·伯内特的《血腥计划》和伊恩·麦奎尔的《北方之水》中的犯罪叙事
摘要在过去的三十年里,新维多利亚小说一直是当代英国历史小说中最重要的分支之一。由于A.S.Byatt的《占有》、Sarah Waters的三部曲《引爆天鹅绒》、《亲和与手指史密斯》和Michel Faber的《深红花瓣与白色》等作品,这一类型不仅在读者中获得了相当大的人气,而且几乎成为了一种典型的文学地位。尽管最近的新维多利亚小说一直在努力寻找一些新的方式来避免刻板的叙事,但它仍然保留着最具决定性的特质。其中之一是对维多利亚社会底层的兴趣,包括暴力和犯罪的主题,这就是为什么这些小说经常采用犯罪和侦探小说的类型。格雷姆·麦克雷·伯内特的《他的血腥计划》(2015年)和伊恩·麦奎尔的《北方之水》(2016年)也是如此,这两部历史小说都以维多利亚时代的英国为背景,分别入围和入围2016年布克奖。本文试图展示这两部小说采用各种形式的犯罪叙事的不同方式,以达到对维多利亚时代更模糊的方面提供令人信服和看似真实的见解的目的。
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Ars Aeterna Arts and Humanities-Literature and Literary Theory
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期刊介绍: The multidisciplinary journal focused on the questions of art and its importance in the contemporary world for the development of culture, mutual understanding, and the human Self.
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