Arthur Conan Doyle and Photography

Traces, Fairies and Other Apparitions

AvBernd Stiegler

Häftad, Engelska, 2024

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Beskrivning

Arthur Conan Doyle is best known as the author of the Sherlock Holmes stories. However, his works are far more extensive than these familiar works. They include historical novels, political pamphlets, historical studies, science fiction novels and, last but not least, numerous publications on spiritualism. Photography plays a central role in his work and gives rise to a highly peculiar world of imagination. The photographs allow us to take a look at the world in around 1900 with all its oddities. For Conan Doyle’s contemporaries, Sherlock Holmes was a real figure. To Conan Doyle, photographs of elves, the dead and ghosts testified to their existence. This book collects these images, along with the imaginarium that surrounds them.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2024-11-30
Mått:156 x 234 x 14 mm
Vikt:372 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:264
Förlag:Edinburgh University Press
ISBN:9781399502191
Översättare:Filkins, Peter

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Mer om författaren

Professor Dr Bernd Stiegler is Professor of Literature at the University of Konsantz (Germany). Together with numerous books and articles in German, he is the author of Traveling in Place: A History of Armchair Travel, published by University of Chicago Press, 2013.

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In this fascinating new book Bernd Stiegler gathers a wealth of material to paint the portrait of Conan Doyle as a writer and doctor, a spiritualist and political activist. His study tells a gripping story; it explores the links between science and superstition, between colonialism and collective identity, loss and mourning in ways which deeply resonate with our current concerns.

Innehållsförteckning

1. Forays into the Wilderness: Conan Doyle as Amateur Photographer2. Sherlock Holmes: The Detective as Camera Digression: The Sherlock Holmes Exhibit, 19513. Photographs from the Heart of Darkness: The Congo Atrocities4. A Fairytale of Science: The Lost WorldDigression: Arthur Conan Doyle and Harry Houdini5. Photos from the Shadowy Realm: Photography and Spiritualism6. Fairies and Gnomes: A Photographic Re-enchantment of the WorldEpilogue: Strategic RealismNotesList of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsIndex of Names