The Case of Sherlock Holmes: Secrets and Lies in Conan Doyle's Detective Fiction
Andrew Glazzard
Reveals the secrets and stories that lie beneath the surface of Watson’s narratives
Key Features
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 stories
- New contexts for late-Victorian and Edwardian detective fiction, from forgotten scandals to the social controversies of the age
- A literary-critical approach to these popular works that is both scholarly and accessible
Tahun:
2022
Penerbit:
Edinburgh University Press
Bahasa:
english
Halaman:
264
ISBN 10:
1474431321
ISBN 13:
9781474431323
File:
PDF, 6.99 MB
IPFS:
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english, 2022