Sherlock Holmes in Context / edited by Sam Naidu.

Format:

Book

Conference/Event

Contributor:

Naidu, Samantha, Editor.

University College, London, host institution.

Conference Name:

Sherlock Holmes: Past and Present (2013 : London, England)

Series:

Crime Files, 2947-8359

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

European literature.

Literature, Modern--19th century.

Literature, Modern.

Literature, Modern--20th century.

Literature, Modern--21st century.

European Literature.

Nineteenth-Century Literature.

Twentieth-Century Literature.

Contemporary Literature.

Local Subjects:

European Literature.

Nineteenth-Century Literature.

Twentieth-Century Literature.

Contemporary Literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (X, 206 p. 22 illus.)

Edition:

1st ed. 2017.

Place of Publication:

London : Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017.

Summary:

This collection of inter-disciplinary essays serves to situate the original Sherlock Holmes, and his various adaptations, in a contemporary cultural context. This book is prompted by three main and related questions: firstly, why is Sherlock Holmes such an enduring and ubiquitous cultural icon; secondly, why is it that Sherlock Holmes, nearly 130 years after his birth, is enjoying such a spectacular renaissance; and, thirdly, what sort of communities, imagined or otherwise, have arisen around this figure since the most recent resurrections of Sherlock Holmes by popular media? Covering various media and genres (TV, film, literature, theatre) and scholarly approaches, this comprehensive collection offers cogent answers to these questions.

Contents:

Introduction

Chapter 1. “All that Matters is the Work”; Ann McClellan

Chapter 2. Clients who disappear and colleagues who cannot compete; Benedick Turner

Chapter 3. “I, Too, Mourn the Loss"; Charlotte Beyer

Chapter 4. The Trickster, Remixed: Sherlock Holmes as Master of Disguise; Benjamin Poore

Chapter 5. Holmes and his Boswell in Cosplay and Roleplay; Lynn Duffy

Chapter 6. A “Horrific Breakdown of Reason”; Sam Naidu

Chapter 7. Sherlock Holmes and the Fiction of Agency; Martin Wagner. Chapter 8. The Savage Subtext of The Hound of the Baskervilles; David Grylls

Chapter 9. Holmes into Challenger.; Douglas Kerr

Chapter 10. Modernising Holmes; Emily Garside. .

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

ISBN:

9781137555953

1137555955