Sir John Fielding (1721–80) we współczesnym kryminale anglojęzycznym

• Authors: Jakub Lipski

Title variants

EN

Sir John Fielding (1721–80) in Contemporary Crime Fiction in English

• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

EN

This article discusses the ways in which the life and achievements of Sir John Fielding are reconstructed in contemporary crime fiction in English. The material under scrutiny consists of selected examples of the so-called Georgian crime/mystery, that is, crime narratives set in Georgian England (1714–1837, the reign of George I, George II, George III and George IV). The discussed works include those in which Fielding functions as a secondary character - the series Dr. Sam: Johnson, Detector by Lillian de la Torre and The Demoniacs by John Dickson Carr - as well as those in which he becomes the protagonist - the series Sir John Fielding Mysteries (Bruce Alexander, 1994–2005) and John Rawlings Mysteries (Deryn Lake, 1994–2000). The offered reading of these texts is contextualized historically as well as being informed by Michel Foucault’s ideas put forward in Discipline and punish.

Keywords

PL

historical crime fiction, Georgian crime, John Fielding, surveillance, gaze

EN

historical crime fiction, Georgian crime, John Fielding, surveillance, gaze

• Publisher: Łódzkie Towarzystwo Naukowe, Stowarzyszenie
• Journal: Zagadnienia Rodzajów Literackich
• Year: 2020
• Volume: 63
• Issue: 3
• Pages: 79-89

Dates

published

2020-12-01

Contributors

author

Jakub Lipski

Identifiers

DOI

10.26485/ZRL/2020/63.3/5