The Cambridge Companion to Sherlock Holmes

Herausgeber: Allan, Janice M.; Pittard, Christopher

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This Companion is an accessible exploration of Sherlock Holmes and his relationship to late-Victorian culture as well as his significance and popularity. Readings of selected Holmes adventures explore the development of detective fiction and Victorian publishing alongside themes of gender, Englishness, law, criminality, adaptation and fandom.

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Produktdetails

• Cambridge Companions to Literature
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. April 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 472g
• ISBN-13: 9781316609590
• ISBN-10: 1316609596
• Artikelnr.: 53491559

Inhaltsangabe

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.