『주홍색 연구』: 낭만적 범죄자의 불법화와 추리소설의 탄생

Abstract

Before a detective novel appeared, the voices of criminals were allowed. In the folktales and literary works, romantic offenders were praised as the heroes who rose against the ruthless rulers. However, they began to be perceived as a threat to a society as capitalism and the private property system were established. With the development of the capitalist society, they became criminals, and simultaneously a detective fiction was born. The important thing in the birth of a detective novel is that the public’s feeling of empathy goes not to transgressing romantic criminals, but to the detectives. This article focuses on the process of romantic criminals becoming illegal in A Study in Scarlet. In this work, a detective’s search for the murderer is seen as an act of practicing justice and a revenge for a lover’s death is a crime who violates the law. In doing so, a legal order is established and a criminal voice is oppressed and illegalized.