The Cambridge companion to Sherlock Holmes / edited by Janice M. Allan & Christopher Pittard.
Allan, Janice M., 1966- editor.; Pittard, Christopher, editor.
2019
PR4624 .C35 2019 (Mapit)
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Title
The Cambridge companion to Sherlock Holmes / edited by Janice M. Allan & Christopher Pittard.
ISBN
9781107155855 (hardcover)
1107155851 (hardcover)
9781316609590 (paperback)
1316609596 (paperback)
Published
Cambridge, United Kingdom : Cambridge University Press, 2019.
Language
English
Description
xix, 261 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Call Number
PR4624 .C35 2019
Dewey Decimal Classification
823/.8
Summary
"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." -- Publisher's description
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 243-257) and index.
Added Author
Allan, Janice M., 1966- editor.
Pittard, Christopher, editor.
Series
Cambridge companions to topics.
Record Appears in
On-Campus Resources > Books
All Resources
Holmes and the history of detective fiction / Merrick Burrow
Doyle, Holmes and Victorian publishing / Clare Clarke
Doyle, Holmes and London / Stephen Knight
Englishness and rural England / Christine Berberich
Gender and sexuality in Holmes / Stacy Gillis
Doyle and evolution / Jonathan Cranfield
Doyle and the criminal body / Stephan Karschay
Holmes, law and order / Jeremy Tambling
The empires of A study in scarlet and The sign of four / Caroline Reitz
Sidney Paget and visual culture in the Adventures and Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes / Christopher Pittard
Gothic returns: The hound of the Baskervilles / Janice M. Allan
Holmes and literary theory / Bran Nicol
Adapting Holmes / Neil McCaw
Neo-Holmesian fiction / Catherine Wynne
Sherlockian fandom / Roberta Pearson.

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