Newgate novel

As Newgate novel is called a type of detective fiction that was popular during the 1830s in the UK. Main representatives of this genre were Edward George Bulwer- Lytton and William Harrison Ainsworth. The novelists of Newgate used as the basis for the plot of her novels criminal cases from real life. Was often a source to this, the Newgate Calendar, a biographical representation of famous criminals, which was published in the late 18th and early 19th century, used. Critics saw in the Newgate novels a glorification of the life of criminals. In Edward George Bulwer Lytton's novel Eugene Aram, the criminals will be shown for example shown as guilty conscious philosopher; William Harrison Ainsworth provides the criminals in the novel Rookwood as glamorous outlaws dar. In Charles Dickens' novel Oliver Twist and William Makepeace Thackeray's Catherine the concept of Newgate novel is rejected by the lives of criminals is rigorously shown in a realistic way in these novels.