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- Title
KANT'S "JEWEL" AND COLLINS'S "MOONSTONE": THE PROBLEM OF MORAL LUCK IN MYSTERY FICTION.
- Authors
Beasley, Brett
- Abstract
The article focuses on the relationship between mystery fiction and morality challenging editor Otto Penzler's view that mystery stories primarily serve to comfort readers. Topics include the exploration of mystery fiction's experimentation with morality, the subversion of basic moral assumptions and approaches to moral responsibility through the emphasis on moral luck, and a specific analysis of how moral luck manifests in Wilkie Collins's novel "The Moonstone"
- Subjects
MYSTERY fiction; MOONSTONE, The (Book : Collins); COLLINS, Wilkie, 1824-1889; VICTORIAN (Literary period)
- Publication
Renascence, 2023, Vol 75, Issue 3/4, p212
- ISSN
0034-4346
- Publication type
Literary Criticism
- DOI
10.5840/renascence2023753/412