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Making the Literary-Geographical World of Sherlock Holmes : The Game Is Afoot / David McLaughlin.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- McLaughlin, David, author.
- Series:
- Literary Geography: Theory and Practice Series
- Literary Geography
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Detective and mystery stories--Fiction.
- Detective and mystery stories.
- Holmes, Sherlock--Fiction.
- Holmes, Sherlock.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (175 pages)
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Cardiff, England : University of Wales Press, [2024]
- Summary:
- David McLaughlin's 'Making the World of Sherlock Holmes: The Game is Afoot' explores the geographical and literary dimensions of Sherlock Holmes's fictional world. Through a blend of human geography and literary studies, the book examines how Holmes's London, as imagined by Arthur Conan Doyle, intersects with reality. It discusses the complexity and coexistence of Doyle's imaginary settings with actual locations, the community of fans contributing to Holmes's world, and the mapping of this literary landscape. The work is aimed at scholars and enthusiasts of literary geography and Sherlock Holmes, providing insights into the interplay between fiction and geography. Generated by AI.
- Contents:
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- List of Illustrations
- 1 Introduction: A nostalgic country of the mind?
- 2 Watson’s battered tin dispatch-box: Reading complexity and coexistence
- 3 Co-authoring the literary geographical world of Sherlock Holmes
- 4 Community of circulation: Blurring the boundaries between imagination and actuality
- 5 Plotting, unfolding, enchanting: Mapping Holmes’s literary-geographical world
- 6 Play, performance and sensation: Making places for Holmes
- 7 Walking Holmes into the world
- 8 Postscript
- Works Cited Generated by AI.
- Notes:
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- Part of the metadata in this record was created by AI, based on the text of the resource.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9781837721672
- 183772167X
- OCLC:
- 1458760481
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