Acknowledgements I would like to express my appreciation to a number of people for their invaluable assistance in preparation and development of this thesis.

My most sincere thanks is for my dearest supervisor, Professor a respectable, responsible and resourceful scholar, who has provided me with valuable guidance and helped me at every stage of my writing thesis. It is his support that helps me to complete this thesis. 43946

I want to express my thanks to all the teachers who have taught me and help me in Normal University. They give me the chance to contact with the literature closely. They help me to develop my knowledge of literature and let me have a general idea about literary appreciation. 

Finally, the heartfelt thanks is to all my friends and classmates. Thank you for your encouragement and support. 

The Justice and Morality in Poe's Detective Novels 

Abstract Being an famous writer in the 19th century in America, Edgar Allan Poe was one of the earliest American practitioners of the short story and was considered as the inventor of the detective fiction genre. The public of his novel Murders in the Rue Morgue in 1841 started his detective fiction creation and formed a basic narrative style of this kind of novel which usually has the twisting plots and distinctive characters. This Allan Poe's Mode is followed by many authors afterwards. He created the amateur detective Dupin and the detective narrative mode, and presented his own opinions towards the word.

The paper will mainly analyze the plot genre and the character image in Poe's detective novels and to discuss the hidden views on value and world and the justice and morality.

Keywords: Edgar Allan Poe; detective fictions; the plot genre; the character image; justice and morality

爱•伦坡侦探小说里的正义与道德

摘要爱伦·坡是美国 19 世纪上半叶的著名小说家，同时也是当时世界文学史上不可小觑的写作创新家。爱伦·坡在小说、诗歌和文学评论等方面均有很高的艺术造诣，此外，他还长于通过笔尖上灵动的文字震颤每位读者的灵魂。

爱伦·坡最先开始的是诗歌创作，到晚年才开始侦探小说的写作。尽管其侦探小说屈指可数，但却部部成为经典，并开创了独具特色的侦探小说样式，也因此成为国际文学界侦探小说的 “鼻祖” 。他的作品对后世的侦探小说家从事文学艺术创作提供了较为成功的范例，被后世所推崇`优尔^文:论;文'网www.youerw.com。他不仅塑造了别具匠心的侦探杜邦，他创造了侦探小说叙事模式，也在作品中表达了自己对正义道德的观点。本文以爱伦坡的侦探小说为文学案例，通过在其小说情节类型和人物塑造两个方面的分析，在品爱伦·坡侦探小说写作风格和艺术魅力的同时，阐明其中的世界观与价值观，其中的正义与道德。

毕业论文关键词：爱·伦坡；侦探小说；故事情节；人物塑造；正义与道德

Contents

1. Introduction 1

1.1 Introduction of the Detective Novels 1

1.2 Edgar Allan Poe and his Detective Novels 1

2. A Theme of Justice: The Study of the Plot Genre in Poe's Detective Novels 3

2.1 Reality: Description of the Crime Scene 3

2.1.1 The Gothic Description of the Mystery and Death 3

2.1.2 Reality and Romanticism 3

2.2 Rationality: The Careful Reasoning Process 4

2.2.1 The Creation of the Detective Narrative Style 爱•伦坡侦探小说里的正义与道德:http://www.youerw.com/yingyu/lunwen_45055.html