Cambridge companion to Sherlock Holmes

Cambridge companion to Sherlock Holmes edited by Janice M. Allan & Christopher Pittard. - Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019. - xix, 261 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Includes bibliographical references (pages 243-257) and index.

Holmes and the history of detective fiction / Merrick Burrow -- Doyle, Holmes and Victorian publishing / Clare Clarke -- Doyle, Holmes and London / Stephen Knight -- Englishness and rural England / Christine Berberich -- Gender and sexuality in Holmes / Stacy Gillis -- Doyle and evolution / Jonathan Cranfield -- Doyle and the criminal body / Stephan Karschay -- Holmes, law and order / Jeremy Tambling -- The empires of a study in scarlet and the sign of four / Caroline Reitz -- Sidney Paget and visual culture in the adventures and memoirs of Sherlock Holmes / Christopher Pittard -- Gothic returns: The hound of the Baskervilles / Janice M. Allan -- Holmes and literary theory / Bran Nicol -- Adapting Holmes / Neil McCaw -- Neo-Holmesian fiction / Catherine Wynne -- Sherlockian fandom / Roberta Pearson.

"Sherlock Holmes is the most famous fictional detective in history, with a popularity that has never waned since catching the imagination of his late-Victorian readership"--

9781316609590

2018037329


Holmes, Sherlock.
Doyle, Arthur Conan, 1859-1930 --Characters--Sherlock Holmes.
Doyle, Arthur Conan, 1859-1930 --Criticism and interpretation.


Detective and mystery stories, English--History and criticism.
Private investigators in literature.

PR4624 / .C35 2019

823.8 Al52C



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