Case of Sherlock Holmes

Secrets and Lies in Conan Doyle's Detective Fiction

AvAndrew Glazzard

Inbunden, Engelska, 2018

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Reveals the secrets and stories that lie beneath the surface of Watson’s narrativesThe Case of Sherlock Holmes uncovers what is untold, partly told, wrongly told, or deliberately concealed in Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes saga. This engaging study uses a scholarly approach, combining close reading with historicism, to read the stories afresh, sceptically probing Dr Watson’s narratives and Holmes’s often barely credible solutions. Drawing on Victorian and Edwardian history, Conan Doyle’s life and works, and Doyle’s literary sources, the book offers new insights into the Holmes stories and reveals what they say about money, class, family, sex, race, war, and secrecy. Key FeaturesNew insights into the ever-popular Holmes storiesNew contexts for late-Victorian and Edwardian detective fiction, from forgotten scandals to the social controversies of the ageA literary-critical approach to these popular works that is both scholarly and accessible

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Utgivningsdatum:2018-09-11
Mått:156 x 234 x 21 mm
Vikt:520 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:264
Förlag:Edinburgh University Press
ISBN:9781474431293

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Andrew Glazzard is a senior research fellow at the Royal United Services Institute. He is the author of Conrad’s Popular Fictions (Palgrave Macmillan, 2016) and of numerous journal articles on late-Victorian and Edwardian fiction. He is an occasional contributor to the New Statesman.

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Erudite and enjoyable, Andrew Glazzard’s book replaces the Sherlock Holmes stories in a contemporary context of small social details and large cultural and economic forces. If you thought you knew the Holmes stories, think again: this study detects a hoard of secret treasure in them, enriching our reading and leaving us with an even greater respect for their importance.

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List of illustrationsAcknowledgementsTexts and ReferencesIntroduction: The Art of DeductionPart One: Finance 1. Stone into Money2. The Roylotts of Stoke Moran3. The Guardians of SecuritiesPart Two: Class4. The Pick of a Bad Lot5. The Fall of the House of Musgrave6. A Scandal in East YorkshirePart Three: Family7. Singular Occurrence at a Wedding8. The Rock of Gibraltar9. The Discreetly Shadowed CornersPart Four: Sex10. The Worst Man in London11. The Whole Queer Business of Wisteria LodgePart Five: Race12. Nice, Amiable People!13. A Nobler Man Never Walked the Earth14. The Heat of the Amazon Was Always in her BloodPart Six: War15. This Circle of Misery and Violence and Fear16. Do We Progress?17. The East WindPart Seven: Secrecy18. That Secret History of a Nation19. Oaths and Secrets20. The Giant Rat of SumatraConclusion: The Problem of FinalityBibliographyIndex