Sherlock Holmes in Context [electronic resource] /
Naidu, Sam.editor.
University College, London,host institution.
Sherlock Holmes: Past and Present(2013 :London, England)
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.
Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.
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. .
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.
Doyle, Arthur Conan, 1859-1930
Holmes, Sherlock
Doyle, Arthur Conan, 1859-1930.
Holmes, Sherlock.
British literature.
Literature, Modern-19th century.
Literature, Modern-20th century.
Literature, Modern-21st century.
British and Irish Literature.
Nineteenth-Century Literature.
Twentieth-Century Literature.
Contemporary Literature.