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Author : Janice M. Allan,Christopher Pittard
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2019-05-02
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781107155855
Accessible exploration of Sherlock Holmes and his relationship to late-Victorian culture as well as his ongoing significance and popularity.
Author : Martin Priestman
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2003-11-06
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0521008719
This Companion covers British and American crime fiction from the eighteenth century to the end of the twentieth. As well as discussing the 'detective' fiction of writers like Arthur Conan Doyle, Agatha Christie and Raymond Chandler, it considers other kinds of fiction where crime plays a substantial part, such as the thriller and spy fiction. It also includes chapters on the treatment of crime in the eighteenth-century literature, French and Victorian fiction, women and black detectives, crime on film and TV, police fiction and postmodernist uses of the detective form.
Author : Arthur Conan Doyle
Publisher : BoD - Books on Demand
Page : 565 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2022-12-20
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9791041940592
Memories and Adventures is an autobiography written by Arthur Conan Doyle published in The Strand Magazine from october 1923 to july 1924. It was later published in book form by Hodder & Stoughton Ltd. on 18 september 1924.
Author : Neil McCaw
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Page : 451 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2019-11-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781538123164
Historical Dictionary of Sherlock Holmes contains a variety of information about Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes stories, as both narratives and also cultural phenomena. The volume will help readers look deeper into those stories and the meanings of the various reference points within them, as well as achieving a deeper understanding of the range of contexts of Holmes, Conan Doyle, and detective fiction as a genre. This book examines the broad global Sherlock Holmes phenomenon related to the ways in which the stories have been adapted into a range of other media, as well as the cultural status of Holmes all over the world. Historical Dictionary of Sherlock Holmes contains a chronology, an introduction, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has over 1,000 cross-referenced entries that contain detailed examinations of the themes and features of the 60 stories that make up the Sherlock Holmes canon. This book is an excellent resource for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes stories.
Author : Arthur Conan Doyle
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1904
Category : Detective and mystery stories, English
ISBN : PRNC:32101068151313
Author : Victor Coelho,John Covach
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2019-09-12
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781107030268
The first collection of academic essays focused entirely on the musical, historical, cultural and media impact of the Rolling Stones.
Author : Deborah Cartmell,Imelda Whelehan
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2007-05-10
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1139827553
This Companion offers a multi-disciplinary approach to literature on film and television. Writers are drawn from different backgrounds to consider broad topics, such as the issue of adaptation from novels and plays to the screen, canonical and popular literature, fantasy, genre and adaptations for children. There are also case studies, such as Shakespeare, Jane Austen, the nineteenth-century novel and modernism, which allow the reader to place adaptations of the work of writers within a wider context. An interview with Andrew Davies, whose work includes Pride and Prejudice (1995) and Bleak House (2005), reveals the practical choices and challenges that face the professional writer and adaptor. The Companion as a whole provides an extensive survey of an increasingly popular field of study.
Author : David Glover,Scott McCracken
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2012-04-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780521513371
An overview of popular literature from the early nineteenth century to the present day from a historical and comparative perspective.
Author : Resa Haile,Tamara R. Bower
Publisher : Universal-Publishers
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2019-09-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781627347266
Modern writers have reconsidered every subject under the sun through the lens of Sherlock Holmes. The overlooked subject is agency: the opportunities available to these women for independence and control. What we find all too often are the silences around them. And yet, these clients--villains, victims, and Violets--are pivotal in the world of Sherlock Holmes. Perhaps more enigmatic than Holmes’ methods is what Watson sees: the woman in the shadows. Whether lady or lady’s maid, if she does speak, it’s often not recorded in her words. That was life for half the population of Victorian England. A woman’s role was written before she was born; it merely required her to don the starched white apron of a maid, or the rough, stained skirts of a "char"--who did the dirtiest of household jobs—or the fine silk gowns of a lady. Enter Villains, Victims, and Violets to spy and report on these women in their darkest, most vulnerable moments. How does Irene Adler—pursued by a powerful king, and by Sherlock Holmes--outwit them both? Can Lady Hilda conceal the secret that only Holmes unravels? When Violet Hunter takes the last job offered before she loses everything, can Holmes free her and her doppelganger? To understand Holmes’ world is to gaze unsparingly into the lives of its women: the villains and what drives them astray; the victims Holmes races to rescue; and the Violets, who make up the strongest characters from Holmes’ unforgettable cases. The authors pull back the curtain on their private spaces, revealing their "proper" place in a man’s world at the dusk of the 19th century and the dawn of the 20th. Foreword by Nisi Shawl, noted Sherlockian and the James Tiptree Jr. Award-winning and Nebula-nominated author of the brilliant steampunk, feminist, Afrofuturist novel Everfair.
Author : Arthur Conan Doyle
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2023-09-14
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0198865759
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes is the series of short stories that made the fortunes of The Strand Magazine, in which they were first published, and won immense popularity for Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson. The detective is at the height of his powers and the volume is full of famous cases, including `The Red-Headed League', `The Blue Carbuncle', and `The Speckled Band'. Although Holmes gained a reputation for infallibility, Conan Doyle showed his own realism and feminism by having the great detective defeated by Irene Adler - the Woman - in the very first story, `A Scandal in Bohemia'. Catherine Wynne's introduction reappraises the stories by looking at Conan Doyle's medical background and its influence on the creation of the famous detective. This edition also features completely revised explanatory notes to reflect the most recent scholarship on Conan Doyle and Victorian Literature. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.
Author : Rosemary Herbert
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 535 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0195072391
"Entertaining and authoritative, this alphabetically arranged companion is an indispensable reference guide to crime and mystery writing. Unique in its biographical and critical treatment of major detective writers, it is a comprehensive digest to the gen
Author : C. Alan Bradley,William A.S. Sarjeant
Publisher : University of Alberta
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2004-06-08
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0888644159
Was Sherlock Holmes really a woman?
Author : Mitch Cullin
Publisher : Anchor
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2006-05-09
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781400078226
The basis for the Major Motion Picture Mr. Holmes starring Ian McKellen and Laura Linney and directed by Bill Condon. It is 1947, and the long-retired Sherlock Holmes, now 93, lives in a remote Sussex farmhouse with his housekeeper and her young son. He tends to his bees, writes in his journal, and grapples with the diminishing powers of his mind. But in the twilight of his life, as people continue to look to him for answers, Holmes revisits a case that may provide him with answers of his own to questions he didn’t even know he was asking–about life, about love, and about the limits of the mind’s ability to know. A novel of exceptional grace and literary sensitivity, A Slight Trick of the Mind is a brilliant imagining of our greatest fictional detective and a stunning inquiry into the mysteries of human connection.
Author : Dr Christopher Pittard
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2013-05-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781409478829
Concentrating on works by authors such as Fergus Hume, Arthur Conan Doyle, Grant Allen, L.T. Meade, and Marie Belloc Lowndes, Christopher Pittard explores the complex relation between the emergence of detective fictions in the 1880s and 1890s and the concept of purity. The centrality of material and moral purity as a theme of the genre, Pittard argues, both reflected and satirised a contemporary discourse of degeneration in which criminality was equated with dirt and disease and where national boundaries were guarded against the threat of the criminal foreigner. Situating his discussion within the ideologies underpinning George Newnes's Strand Magazine as well as a wide range of nonfiction texts, Pittard demonstrates that the genre was a response to the seductive and impure delights associated with sensation and gothic novels. Further, Pittard suggests that criticism of detective fiction has in turn become obsessed with the idea of purity, thus illustrating how a genre concerned with policing the impure itself became subject to the same fear of contamination. Contributing to the richness of Pittard's project are his discussions of the convergence of medical discourse and detective fiction in the 1890s, including the way social protest movements like the antivivisectionist campaigns and medical explorations of criminality raised questions related to moral purity.
Author : Michael Levenson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1999-02-11
Category : Art
ISBN : 052149866X
In The Cambridge Companion to Modernism, ten eminent scholars from Britain and the United States offer timely new appraisals of the revolutionary cultural transformations of the first decades of the twentieth century. Chapters on the major literary genres, intellectual, political and institutional contexts, film and the visual arts, provide both close analyses of individual works and a broader set of interpretive narratives. A chronology and guide to further reading supply valuable orientation for the study of Modernism. Readers will be able to use the book at once as a standard work of reference and as a stimulating source of compelling new readings of works by writers and artists from Joyce and Woolf to Stein, Picasso, Chaplin, H. D. and Freud, and many others. Students will find much-needed help with the difficulties of approaching Modernism, while the essays' original contributions will send scholars back to this volume for stimulating re-evaluation.