answering study guide for western world literature from 1660
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Origin
Robert Louis Stevenson claimed that the story came to him in a dream.
Detective Fiction
Poe created detective fiction in the early 19th century. He set up a model that was and still used by detective fiction writers.
1. First-person narration.
2. Amateur detective and his sidekick.
3. Unsolvable mystery.
4. Startling conclusion.
Darwin and evolutionary Psychology
Darwin’s Origin of the Species shocked the Victorians in the mid-19th century.
Evolutionary psychologists claimed that the human mind was divided into an animal part and a human part. The animal part was stronger because it was older. Vigilance was required to make the human part dominate. They believed that civilization was very fragile.
The double life of the Victorian Man
In the Victorian Era women were perceived as angelic, non-sexual beings.
Men sought pleasure with prostitutes, which were plentiful due to poverty and mass migration to urban areas.
It has been estimated that the average Victorian middle-class man visited a brothel three times a week.
