The Critical Reception Of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Author : Laurence W. Mazzeno
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2023
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781640140936

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The Critical Reception of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle by Laurence W. Mazzeno Pdf

Examines both academic and popular assessments of Conan Doyle's work, giving pride of place to the Holmes stories and their adaptations, and also attending to the wide range of his published work. Twenty-first-century readers, television viewers, and moviegoers know Arthur Conan Doyle as the creator of Sherlock Holmes, the world's most recognizable fictional detective. Holmes's enduring popularity has kept Conan Doyle in the public eye. However, Holmes has taken on a life of his own, generating a steady stream of critical commentary, while Conan Doyle's other works are slighted or ignored. Yet the Holmes stories make up only a small portion of Conan Doyle's published work, which includes mainstream and historical fiction; history; drama; medical, spiritualist, and political tracts; and even essays on photography. When Doyle published - whatever the subject - his contemporaries took note. Yet, outside of the fiction featuring Sherlock Holmes, until recently relatively little has been done to analyze the reception Conan Doyle's work received during his lifetime and since his death. This book examines both academic and popular assessments of Conan Doyle's work, giving pride of place to the Holmes stories and their many adaptations for print, visual, and online media, but attending to his other contributions to turn-of-the-twentieth-century culture as well. The availability of periodicals and newspapers online makes it possible to develop an assessment of Conan Doyle's (and Sherlock Holmes's) reputation among a wider readership and viewership, thus allowing for development of a broader and more accurate portrait of Doyle's place in literary and cultural history.

Author : Harold Orel
Publisher : G. K. Hall
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : UOM:39015029225904

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Critical Essays on Sir Arthur Conan Doyle by Harold Orel Pdf

Author : Nils Clausson
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 197 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2021-08-25
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781527574090

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Re-examining Arthur Conan Doyle by Nils Clausson Pdf

This collection re-examines the works and life of Arthur Conan Doyle from multiple disciplinary perspectives. It proposes new ways of studying Conan Doyle, and considers overlooked or neglected aspects of his oeuvre, offering fresh perspectives on the multiple genres of his fiction and his relationship to contemporary writers and movements.

Author : Arthur Conan Doyle
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1443813354

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The Complete Works of Arthur Conan Doyle by Arthur Conan Doyle Pdf

"The complete works have all been newly typeset for this edition. In the absence of an even nearly complete edition of Conan Doyle's works which is in the public domain, the texts for this edition have had to be sourced piecemeal from available public-domain versions. The majority of these have been relatively early editions; a few have been modern reprints of the original texts unedited; a number have been etexts reproducing in their turn editions now in the public domain. Neil McCaw, Reader in English Literature at the University of Winchester and Academic Director of The Arthur Conan Doyle Collection, Lancelyn Green Bequest, has written a new introduction to the Works, in volume 1, which covers biographical background, critical reception, influence, and a brief bibliography"-- Publisher.

Author : Scott Allen Nollen
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : UOM:39015036065616

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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle at the Cinema by Scott Allen Nollen Pdf

In February 1903, a 30-second film titled Sherlock Holmes Baffled was released by American Mutoscope and Biograph Company, the first known adaptation of the work of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Over the years hundreds of adaptation and parodies of Conan Doyles works have been released. Though he is most closely associated with Sherlock Holmes, other Conan Doyle works have found their way to the silver screen, including the science fiction classic The Lost World (1925). The major adaptations of all of Conan Doyles literary works are fully covered here, plus a 1927 one-reel documentary in which the author talks about his work and his psychic beliefs. The focus is on how faithful the adaptations are to the authors own work and the overall effectiveness of the film.

Author : Mattias Boström
Publisher : Grove Press
Page : 684 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2017-08-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780802189165

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From Holmes to Sherlock by Mattias Boström Pdf

“If you love Sherlock Holmes, you’ll love this book…the best account of Baker Street mania ever written.”—Michael Dirda, The Washington Post Winner of the Agatha Award for best nonfiction work Edgar Award finalist for best critical/biographical work Anthony Award finalist for best critical/nonfiction work Everyone knows Sherlock Holmes. But what made this fictional character, dreamed up by a small-town English doctor in the 1880s, into such a lasting success, despite the author’s own attempt to escape his invention? In From Holmes to Sherlock, Swedish author and Baker Street Irregular Mattias Boström recreates the full story behind the legend for the first time. From a young Arthur Conan Doyle sitting in a Scottish lecture hall taking notes on his medical professor’s powers of observation to the pair of modern-day fans who brainstormed the idea behind the TV sensation Sherlock, from the publishing world’s first literary agent to the Georgian princess who showed up at the Conan Doyle estate and altered a legacy, the narrative follows the men and women who have created and perpetuated the myth. It includes tales of unexpected fortune, accidental romance, and inheritances gone awry, and tells of the actors, writers, readers, and other players who have transformed Sherlock Holmes from the gentleman amateur of the Victorian era to the odd genius of today. From Holmes to Sherlock is a singular celebration of the most famous detective in the world—a must for newcomers and experts alike. “Riveting…[A] wonderfully entertaining history.”?TheWall Street Journal “Celebrates the versatility of one of fiction’s most beloved characters…terrific.”?TheChristian Science Monitor

Author : Arthur Conan Doyle
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 435 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2012-02-16
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781108044042

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Memories and Adventures by Arthur Conan Doyle Pdf

First published in 1923, this autobiography explores Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's life from his school years to literary success and beyond.

Author : Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2015-02-23
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 150860343X

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Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Pdf

I was not surprised. Indeed, my only wonder was that he had not already been mixed up in this extraordinary case, which was the one topic of conversation through the length and breadth of England. For a whole day my companion had rambled about the room with his chin upon his chest and his brows knitted, charging and recharging his pipe with the strongest black tobacco, and absolutely deaf to any of my questions or remarks. Fresh editions of every paper had been sent up by our news agent, only to be glanced over and tossed down into a corner. Yet, silent as he was, I knew perfectly well what it was over which he was brooding. There was but one problem before the public which could challenge his powers of analysis, and that was the singular disappearance of the favorite for the Wessex Cup, and the tragic murder of its trainer. When, therefore, he suddenly announced his intention of setting out for the scene of the drama it was only what I had both expected and hoped for.

Author : Kenneth Everett,Ed Cripps,Arthur Conan Doyle
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2018-06-23
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1983254126

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The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Kenneth Everett,Ed Cripps,Arthur Conan Doyle Pdf

This is the complete unabridged version of The Adventures Of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. This book includes a guide to present and explain the literary work of this book including a Book Summary, a Publication History and Critical Reception, a Character List, a Character Analysis and Character Map, and Summaries, Analysis, and Glossary for the Chapters. Also, for the readers pleasure the book is illustrated. There is also an Author Biography and Bibliography. With an introduction by Ed Cripps.The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes is a collection of twelve short stories by Arthur Conan Doyle, featuring his fictional detective Sherlock Holmes. It was first published on 14 October 1892; the individual stories had been serialized in The Strand Magazine between July 1891 and June 1892. The stories are not in chronological order, and the only characters common to all twelve are Holmes and Dr. Watson. The stories are related in first-person narrative from Watson's point of view.In general the stories in The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes identify, and try to correct, social injustices. Holmes is portrayed as offering a new, fairer sense of justice. In the riveting tales collected in The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, the sleuth of 221B Baker Street and his steadfast companion, Watson, set out on the dark, foggy streets of late Victorian London to solve England's darkest mysteries and unearth its most closely guarded secrets. In these stories, the beloved detective uses razor-sharp logic and brilliant analytical reasoning to rescue a king from blackmail, find a missing fiancé, infiltrate an opium den, and solve many other mysteries. The adventures of Sherlock Holmes remain as thrilling, surprising, and entertaining as they were more than a century ago.

Author : Nils Clausson
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2019-01-22
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781527526648

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Arthur Conan Doyle’s Art of Fiction by Nils Clausson Pdf

This groundbreaking book rescues Arthur Conan Doyle from the sub-literary category of popular fiction and from the myth of Sherlock Holmes. Instead of following new historicists and postcolonialists and asking what Conan Doyle’s fiction reveals about its author and what it tells us about Victorian attitudes to crime, class, Empire and gender, this provocative and convincingly argued literary study shifts the critical emphasis to the neglected art of the novels, tales and stories. It demonstrates through close reading that they can be read the same way as canonical literary fiction. Unapologetically polemical and written in an accessible, jargon-free style, this book will stimulate debate and provoke counterarguments, but most importantly it will send readers, both within and outside the academy, back to the fiction with heightened understanding and renewed pleasure. At a time when evaluation has virtually disappeared from literary studies, this iconoclastic book returns it to the centre.

Author : Arthur Conan Doyle
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 590 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Gothic fiction (Literary genre), English
ISBN : 9780198734291

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Gothic Tales by Arthur Conan Doyle Pdf

'There was a rumour, too, that he was a devil-worshipper, or something of that sort, and also that he had the evil eye...' Arthur Conan Doyle was the greatest genre writer Britain has ever produced. Throughout a long writing career, he drew on his own medical background, his travels, and his increasing interest in spiritualism and the occult to produce a spectacular array of Gothic stories. Many of Doyle's writings are recognized as the very greatest tales of terror. They range from hauntings in the polar wasteland to evil surgeons and malevolent jungle landscapes. This collection brings together over thirty of Conan Doyle's best "Gothic Tales," in a scholarly edition for the first time. Darryl Jones's introduction discusses the contradictions in Conan Doyle's very public life - as a medical doctor who became obsessed with the spirit world, or a British imperialist drawn to support Irish Home Rule - and shows the ways in which these found articulation in that most anxious of all literary forms, the Gothic.

Author : Arthur Conan Doyle
Publisher : FilRougeViceversa
Page : 1539 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2021-05-19
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783985510566

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Arthur Conan Doyle Collection by Arthur Conan Doyle Pdf

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes A Study in Scarlet The Hound of the Baskervilles The Return of Sherlock Holmes The Sign of the Four "To Sherlock Holmes she is always the woman. I have seldom heard him mention her under any other name. In his eyes she eclipses and predominates the whole of her sex. It was not that he felt any emotion akin to love for Irene Adler. All emotions, and that one particularly, were abhorrent to his cold, precise but admirably balanced mind. He was, I take it, the most perfect reasoning and observing machine that the world has seen, but as a lover he would have placed himself in a false position. He never spoke of the softer passions, save with a gibe and a sneer. They were admirable things for the observer—excellent for drawing the veil from men's motives and actions. But for the trained reasoner to admit such intrusions into his own delicate and finely adjusted temperament was to introduce a distracting factor which might throw a doubt upon all his mental results. Grit in a sensitive instrument, or a crack in one of his own high-power lenses, would not be more disturbing than a strong emotion in a nature such as his."

Author : Martin Booth
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
Page : 543 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2013-05-10
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781466843585

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The Doctor and the Detective by Martin Booth Pdf

This entertaining, smart biography of Arthur Conan Doyle presents a modern day interpretation of the man who, contrary to his best efforts, will always be known as the creator of the great detective, Sherlock Holmes. Doyle was, however, much more, as Booth shows us in this intriguing study of a man who thrived on the times in which he lived. While Holmes fans will be captivated by the various tidbits that offer insight into their hero's creation; others will be fascinated by this living embodiment of the Victorian masculine ideal.

Author : Arthur Conan Doyle
Publisher : eBookIt.com
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2013-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781456613648

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The Complete Arthur Conan Doyle Collection by Arthur Conan Doyle Pdf

Compiled in one book, the essential collection of books by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle:The Adventure of the Bruce-Partington PlansThe Adventure of the Cardboard BoxThe Adventure of the Devil's FootThe Adventure of the Dying DetectiveThe Adventure of the Red CircleThe Adventure of Wisteria LodgeThe Adventures of GerardThe Adventures of Sherlock HolmesBeyond the CityThe Cabman's StoryThe Captain of the Pole-Star and Other TalesDanger! and Other StoriesA Desert DramaThe Doings of Raffles HawA DuetThe Exploits of Brigadier GerardThe Firm of GirdlestoneThe Great Shadow and Other Napoleonic TalesHis Last BowThe Hound of the BaskervillesThe Last GalleyThe Last of the LegionsThe Lost WorldMemoirs of Sherlock HolmesMy Friend the MurdererThe Mystery of CloomberThe New RevelationThe ParasiteThe Poison BeltThe RefugeesThe Return of Sherlock HolmesRodney StoneRound the Red LampThe Sign of the FourSir NigelSongs of ActionThe Stark Munro LettersA Study In ScarletTales of Terror and MysteryThrough the Magic DoorThe Tragedy of the KoroskoUncle BernacThe Valley of FearThe Vital MessageThe White Company

Author : Arthur Conan Doyle
Publisher : anboco
Page : 351 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2016-11-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783736417915

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The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle Pdf

In general the stories in The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes identify, and try to correct, social injustices. Holmes is portrayed as offering a new, fairer sense of justice. The stories were well received, and boosted the subscriptions figures of The Strand Magazine, prompting Doyle to be able to demand more money for his next set of stories. The first story, "A Scandal in Bohemia", includes the character of Irene Adler, who, despite being featured only within this one story by Doyle, is a prominent character in modern Sherlock Holmes adaptations, generally as a love interest for Holmes. Doyle included four of the twelve stories from this collection in his twelve favourite Sherlock Holmes stories, picking "The Adventure of the Speckled Band" as his overall favourite.