Sherlock Holmes and Conan Doyle : multi-media afterlives / edited by Sabine Vanacker and Catherine Wynne.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Vanacker, Sabine.

Contributor:

Wynne, Catherine, 1971-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Doyle, Arthur Conan, 1859-1930--Adaptations.

Doyle, Arthur Conan.

Doyle, Arthur Conan, 1859-1930--Influence.

Holmes, Sherlock--In mass media.

Holmes, Sherlock.

Doyle, Arthur Conan, 1859-1930.

Holmes, Sherlock in mass media.

Genre:

Adaptations.

Physical Description:

xiii, 220 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2013.

Summary:

Sherlock Holmes gripped the public imagination in the 1890s after Arthur Conan Doyle's stories were serialized in The Strand Magazine. The sleuth's appeal, however, extends well beyond the parameters of his fictional time. Sherlock Holmes is an iconic figure who has, over the course of the twentieth and twenty-first century, been immortalized in literary and film adaptations. Doyle himself increasingly appears as a fictional figure in contemporary novels and films that often confuse the boundaries between the historical and the fictional. This book explores and celebrates this continuing cultural phenomenon. Both Holmes and Doyle engage the dominant questions of their time as well as ours-of order and chaos, stability and instability, materialism and spirituality. As demonstrated by the re-imagining of Holmes by each successive generation, and the more recent fictionalisation of Doyle, these figures continue to simultaneously shape and disturb our culture and consciousness. Book jacket.

Contents:

1 The Case of the Multiplying Millions: Sherlock Holmes in Advertising / Amanda J. Field Field, Amanda J. 19

2 Sherlock Holmes and a Politics of Adaptation / Neil McCaw McCaw, Neil 36

3 'Open the Window, Then!': Filmic Interpretation of Gothic Conventions in Brian Mills's The Hound of the Baskervilles / Terry Scarborough Scarborough, Terry 49

4 The Curious Case of the Kingdom of Shadows: The Transmogrification of Sherlock Holmes in the Cinematic Imagination / Harvey O'Brien O'Brien, Harvey 64

5 Sherlock Holmes, Italian Anarchists and Torpedoes: The Case of a Manuscript Recovered in Italy / Claudia Capancioni Capancioni, Claudia 80

6 Sherlock's Progress through History: Feminist Revisions of Holmes / Sabine Vanacker Vanacker, Sabine 93

7 Sherlock Holmes Reloaded: Holmes, Videogames and Multiplicity / Souvik Mukherjee Mukherjee, Souvik 109

8 Sherlock Holmes Version 2.0: Adapting Doyle in the Twenty-First Century / Bran Nicol Nicol, Bran 124

9 The Strange Case of the Scientist Who Believed in Fairies / Andrew Lycett Lycett, Andrew 140

10 Channelling the Past: Arthur & George and the Neo-Victorian Uncanny / Patricia Pulham Pulham, Patricia 155

11 Arthur Conan Doyle's Appearances as a Detective in Historical Crime Fiction / Jennifer S. Palmer Palmer, Jennifer S. 169

12 Sherlock Holmes in Fairyland: The Afterlife of Arthur Conan Doyle / Clive Bloom Bloom, Clive 184.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780230300507

0230300502

OCLC:

792880320