| Description |
1 online resource (x, 206 pages : illustrations) |
| Series |
Crime files |
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Crime files series.
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| Contents |
Introduction / Sam Naidu -- "All that matters is the work": text and adaptation in Sherlock / Ann McClellen -- Clients who disappear and colleagues who cannot compete: female characters in the BBC's Sherlock / Benedick Turner -- "I, too, mourn the loss": Mrs. Hudson and the absence of Sherlock Holmes / Charlotte Beyer -- The trickster, remixed: Sherlock Holmes as master of disguise / Benjamin Poore -- Holmes and his Boswell in cosplay and roleplay / Lynn Duffy -- A "horrific breakdown of reason": Holmes and the postcolonial anti-detective novel, Lost Ground / Sam Naidu -- Sherlock Holmes and the fiction of agency / Martin Wagner -- The savage subtext of The Hound of the Baskervilles / David Grylls -- Holmes into challenger: the dark investigator / Douglas Kerr -- Modernizing Holmes: location and bringing Sherlock into the twenty-first century / Emily Garside |
| Summary |
This book of interdisciplinary essays serves to situate the original Sherlock Holmes, and his various adaptations, in a contemporary cultural context. This collection 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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Doyle, Arthur Conan, 1859-1930 -- Characters -- Sherlock Holmes
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Holmes, Sherlock
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| SUBJECT |
Doyle, Arthur Conan, 1859-1930 fast |
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Holmes, Sherlock fast |
| Subject |
Detective and mystery stories, English -- History and criticism
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Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900.
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Literary studies: from c 1900.
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Literature: history & criticism.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
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Detective and mystery stories, English
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Naidu, Samantha.
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| ISBN |
9781137555953 |
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1137555955 |
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