Sherlock Holmes in context
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Sherlock Holmes in context
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Palgrave Macmillan, c2017
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This book of interdisciplinary essays serves to situate the original Sherlock Holmes, and his various adaptations, in a contemporary cultural context. This collection 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.
Table of 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.
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