The Case of Sherlock Holmes: Secrets and Lies in Conan Doyle's Detective Fiction - Couverture rigide

Glazzard, Andrew

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1474431291 ISBN 13 : 9781474431293

Editeur : Edinburgh University Press, 2018

Synopsis

Reveals the secrets and stories that lie beneath the surface of Watson's narratives
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 storiesNew contexts for late-Victorian and Edwardian detective fiction, from forgotten scandals to the social controversies of the ageA literary-critical approach to these popular works that is both scholarly and accessible

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Andrew Glazzard is a senior research fellow at the Royal United Services Institute. He is the author of Conrad's Popular Fictions (Palgrave Macmillan, 2016) and of numerous journal articles on late-Victorian and Edwardian fiction. He is an occasional contributor to the New Statesman.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Edinburgh University Press
• Date d'édition: 2018
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1474431291
• ISBN 13: 9781474431293
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 264
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible