The Case of Sherlock Holmes

Secrets and Lies in Conan Doyle's Detective Fiction

Andrew Glazzard (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

264 Seiten

2020
Edinburgh University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4744-3130-9 (ISBN)

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Reveals the secrets and stories that lie beneath the surface of Watson’s narratives
The Case of Sherlock Holmes uncovers what is untold, partly told, wrongly told, or deliberately concealed in Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes saga. This engaging study uses a scholarly approach, combining close reading with historicism, to read the stories afresh, sceptically probing Dr Watson’s narratives and Holmes’s often barely credible solutions. Drawing on Victorian and Edwardian history, Conan Doyle’s life and works, and Doyle’s literary sources, the book offers new insights into the Holmes stories and reveals what they say about money, class, family, sex, race, war, and secrecy.
Key Features
New insights into the ever-popular Holmes storiesNew contexts for late-Victorian and Edwardian detective fiction, from forgotten scandals to the social controversies of the ageA literary-critical approach to these popular works that is both scholarly and accessible

Andrew Glazzard is a senior research fellow at the Royal United Services Institute. He is the author of Conrad’s Popular Fictions (Palgrave Macmillan, 2016) and of numerous journal articles on late-Victorian and Edwardian fiction. He is an occasional contributor to the New Statesman.

List of illustrations

Acknowledgements

Texts and References

Introduction: The Art of Deduction

Part One: Finance

1. Stone into Money

2. The Roylotts of Stoke Moran

3. The Guardians of Securities

Part Two: Class

4. The Pick of a Bad Lot

5. The Fall of the House of Musgrave

6. A Scandal in East Yorkshire

Part Three: Family

7. Singular Occurrence at a Wedding

8. The Rock of Gibraltar

9. The Discreetly Shadowed Corners

Part Four: Sex

10. The Worst Man in London

11. The Whole Queer Business of Wisteria Lodge

Part Five: Race

12. Nice, Amiable People!

13. A Nobler Man Never Walked the Earth

14. The Heat of the Amazon Was Always in her Blood

Part Six: War

15. This Circle of Misery and Violence and Fear

16. Do We Progress?

17. The East Wind

Part Seven: Secrecy

18. That Secret History of a Nation

19. Oaths and Secrets

20. The Giant Rat of Sumatra

Conclusion: The Problem of Finality

Bibliography

Index

Erscheinungsdatum	09.07.2020
Zusatzinfo	20 black and white illustrations
Verlagsort	Edinburgh
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Gewicht	409 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturgeschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
ISBN-10	1-4744-3130-5 / 1474431305
ISBN-13	978-1-4744-3130-9 / 9781474431309
Zustand	Neuware