Arthur Conan Doyle and the Meaning of Masculinity

ISBN-13: 9781859282649 / Angielski / Twarda / 2000 / 320 str.

Diana Barsham

Opis

This original study offers a revision of the Doyle myth. It presents his career as a series of dialogic contestations with writers like Thomas Hardy and Winston Churchill.

Spis treści

Contents: Introduction; Model with damaged eyes: autobiographical writings; When did you last see your father? The early fiction; Sh ... ! : reminiscences of a London medical man; Tortured bodies and nervous narratives: the novels of the 1890s; Figures in the sand: histories, war correspondence and legal campaigning; Beyond auto/biography: spiritualism and travel writing; Bibliography; Index.

O autorze

Diana Barsham is Professor of Cultural History at University of Derby.