Victorian detectives in contemporary culture : beyond Sherlock Holmes / Lucyna Krawczyk-Żywko, editor.

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Victorian detectives in contemporary culture : beyond Sherlock Holmes / Lucyna Krawczyk-Żywko, editor.

9783319693118 (electronic book)
3319693115 (electronic book)
9783319693101
3319693107

Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, [2017]

English

1 online resource (xiii, 116 pages)

10.1007/978-3-319-69311-8 doi

PN1995.9.D4 V53 2017eb

791.43/6556

In contrast to the main body of current Victorian detective criticism, which tends to concentrate on Conan Doyle's creation and only uses other detectives as a backdrop, the texts gathered in this volume examine various contemporary ways of (re)presenting real and fictional detectives that originated in or are otherwise associated with that era: Inspector Bucket, Sergeant Cuff, Inspector Reid, Tobias Gregson, Flaxman Low, and psychiatrists as detectives. Such a collection allows for a critical re-assessment of both the detectives importance to the Victorian literature and culture and provides a better basis for understanding the reasons behind their contemporary returns, re-imaginings and re-creations, contributing to the creation of a base for further cultural and critical works dealing with reworkings of the Victorian era.

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