Gothic, Not Ideal Form In The Hound Of The Baskervilles

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English

 

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Patricia P

 

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March 2, 2014

 

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University

 

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One would automatically classify The Hound of the Baskervilles as a novel of this genre. Yet I believe this novella to be more of the other type: the Gothic Tale. This is because it threatens the very assumptions and values of the ideal detective novel. The Hound of the Baskervilles is built around a series of binary oppositions...
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One primary opposition is between the progressive present and the primitive past. Sir Henry Baskerville wanting to modernise Baskerville court "I'll have a row of electric lamps up here inside of six months" (Ch 6) is an indication of progress in the present. Instances of primitive pasts resurface in the novel and they include the manuscript (p14), the Neolithic man (p74) and the "dim line of ancestors" (p65) in Baskerville Hall...
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