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Arthur Conan Doyle and Photography - Bernd Stiegler

Arthur Conan Doyle and Photography

Traces, Fairies and Other Apparitions

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Buch | Hardcover
264 Seiten
2023
Edinburgh University Press (Verlag)
978-1-3995-0218-4 (ISBN)
CHF 157,00 inkl. MwSt
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The first exploration of Arthur Conan Doyle, photography and spiritualism.
Arthur Conan Doyle is best known as the author of the Sherlock Holmes stories. However, his works are far more extensive than these familiar works. They include historical novels, political pamphlets, historical studies, science fiction novels and, last but not least, numerous publications on spiritualism. Photography plays a central role in his work and gives rise to a highly peculiar world of imagination. The photographs allow us to take a look at the world in around 1900 with all its oddities. For Conan Doyle’s contemporaries, Sherlock Holmes was a real figure. To Conan Doyle, photographs of elves, the dead and ghosts testified to their existence. This book collects these images, along with the imaginarium that surrounds them.

Professor Dr Bernd Stiegler is Professor of Literature at the University of Konsantz (Germany). Together with numerous books and articles in German, he is the author of Traveling in Place: A History of Armchair Travel, published by University of Chicago Press, 2013.

1. Forays into the Wilderness: Conan Doyle as Amateur Photographer

2. Sherlock Holmes: The Detective as Camera

Digression: The Sherlock Holmes Exhibit, 1951



3. Photographs from the Heart of Darkness: The Congo Atrocities

4. A Fairytale of Science: The Lost World

Digression: Arthur Conan Doyle and Harry Houdini

5. Photos from the Shadowy Realm: Photography and Spiritualism

6. Fairies and Gnomes: A Photographic Re-enchantment of the World



Epilogue: Strategic Realism



NotesList of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsIndex of Names

Erscheinungsdatum
Übersetzer Peter Filkins
Zusatzinfo 120 black and white illustrations
Verlagsort Edinburgh
Sprache englisch
Maße 156 x 234 mm
Themenwelt Kunst / Musik / Theater Fotokunst
Geisteswissenschaften Geschichte
Geisteswissenschaften Religion / Theologie
Geisteswissenschaften Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft Anglistik / Amerikanistik
Geisteswissenschaften Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft Literaturgeschichte
Geisteswissenschaften Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft
ISBN-10 1-3995-0218-2 / 1399502182
ISBN-13 978-1-3995-0218-4 / 9781399502184
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