The Cambridge Companion to Sherlock Holmes

ISBN-13: 9781107155855 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 284 str.

Janice M. Allan; Christopher Pittard

Opis

Accessible exploration of Sherlock Holmes and his relationship to late-Victorian culture as well as his ongoing significance and popularity

Recenzje

'… 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

Spis treści

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.