Sherlock Holmes in Context

Inbunden, Engelska, 2017

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Beskrivning

This book of interdisciplinary essays serves to situate the original Sherlock Holmes, and his various adaptations, in a contemporary cultural context. This collection is prompted by three main and related questions: firstly, why is Sherlock Holmes such an enduring and ubiquitous cultural icon; secondly, why is it that Sherlock Holmes, nearly 130 years after his birth, is enjoying such a spectacular renaissance; and, thirdly, what sort of communities, imagined or otherwise, have arisen around this figure since the most recent resurrections of Sherlock Holmes by popular media? Covering various media and genres (TV, film, literature, theatre) and scholarly approaches, this comprehensive collection offers cogent answers to these questions.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2017-03-24
Mått:148 x 210 x 18 mm
Vikt:408 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Crime Files
Antal sidor:206
Upplaga:17001
Förlag:Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN:9781137555946

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Sam Naidu is Associate Professor in the Department of English, Rhodes University, South Africa. Her main research and teaching areas are crime and detective fiction and transnational literature. She has published widely on South African crime and detective fiction and also on indigenous folklore and ethnography in colonial South Africa.

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"This was a very strong collection of essays, which were engagingly written, thought provoking and stimulating. They follow on well from one another, with essays often picking up similar themes from the previous one but discussing them in a different way. ... I definitely recommend this collection for fans of Sherlock Holmes ... ." (crossexaminingcrime, crossexaminingcrime.wordpress.com, May, 2017)

Innehållsförteckning

Introduction.- Chapter 1. “All that Matters is the Work”; Ann McClellan.- Chapter 2. Clients who disappear and colleagues who cannot compete; Benedick Turner.- Chapter 3. “I, Too, Mourn the Loss"; Charlotte Beyer.- Chapter 4. The Trickster, Remixed: Sherlock Holmes as Master of Disguise; Benjamin Poore.- Chapter 5. Holmes and his Boswell in Cosplay and Roleplay; Lynn Duffy.- Chapter 6. A “Horrific Breakdown of Reason”; Sam Naidu.- Chapter 7. Sherlock Holmes and the Fiction of Agency; Martin Wagner. Chapter 8. The Savage Subtext of The Hound of the Baskervilles; David Grylls.- Chapter 9. Holmes into Challenger.; Douglas Kerr.- Chapter 10. Modernising Holmes; Emily Garside.