The Cambridge Companion to Sherlock Holmes
Part of Cambridge Companions to Literature
- Editors:
- Janice M. Allan, University of Salford
- Christopher Pittard, University of Portsmouth
- Date Published: June 2019
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- format: Hardback
- isbn: 9781107155855
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Sherlock Holmes is the most famous fictional detective in history, with a popularity that has never waned since catching the imagination of his late-Victorian readership. This Companion explores Holmes' popularity and his complex relationship to the late-Victorian and modernist periods; on one hand bearing the imprint of a range of Victorian anxieties and preoccupations, while on the other shaping popular conceptions of criminality, deviance, and the powers of the detective. This collection explores these questions in three parts. 'Contexts' explores late-Victorian culture, from the emergence of detective fiction to ideas of evolution, gender, and Englishness. 'Case Studies' reads selected Holmes adventures in the context of empire, visual culture, and the gothic. Finally, 'Holmesian Afterlives' investigates the relationship between Holmes and literary theory, film and theatre adaptations, new Holmesian novels, and the fandom that now surrounds him.
Read more- Delivers a comprehensive study of the creation, success and afterlife of Sherlock Holmes
- Combines textual analysis with discussion of material issues of publication, and readership
- Discusses the Holmes stories in relationship to many subjects, including gender, science and Englishness
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'An exceptional bibliography completes this volume, which will be particularly useful for beginning Holmesians … Recommended.' B. Diemert, Choice
See more reviews'… a welcome and important contribution, and it is attractively produced … I look forward to engaging with this volume both in my scholarship and in my teaching.' Tom Ue, Victorian Studies
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- Date Published: June 2019
- format: Hardback
- isbn: 9781107155855
- length: 284 pages
- dimensions: 235 x 156 x 18 mm
- weight: 0.58kg
- contains: 15 b/w illus.
- availability: Temporarily unavailable - available from TBC
Table of Contents
List of illustrations
Notes on contributors
Acknowledgements
Chronology
Textual note
1. Introduction Janice M. Allan and Christopher Pittard
Part I. Contexts:
2. Holmes and the history of detective fiction Merrick Burrow
3. Doyle, Holmes and Victorian publishing Clare Clarke
4. Doyle, Holmes and London Stephen Knight
5. Englishness and rural England Christine Berberich
6. Gender and sexuality in Holmes Stacy Gillis
7. Doyle and evolution Jonathan Cranfield
8. Doyle and the criminal body Stephan Karschay
9. Holmes, law and order Jeremy Tambling
Part II. Case Studies:
10. The empires of A Study in Scarlet and The Sign of Four Caroline Reitz
11. Sidney Paget and visual culture in The Adventures and Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes Christopher Pittard
12. Gothic returns: The Hound of the Baskervilles Janice M. Allan
Part III. Holmesian Afterlives:
13. Holmes and literary theory Bran Nicol
14. Adapting Holmes Neil McCaw
15. Neo-Holmesian fiction Catherine Wynne
16. Sherlockian fandom Roberta Pearson
Further reading
Index.
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