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Sherlock Holmes in Context

Sam Naidu (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover

206 Seiten

2017 | 1st ed. 2017
Palgrave Macmillan (Verlag)
978-1-137-55594-6 (ISBN)

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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.

Sam Naidu is Associate Professor in the Department of English, Rhodes University, South Africa. Her main research and teaching areas are crime and detective fiction and transnational literature. She has published widely on South African crime and detective fiction and also on indigenous folklore and ethnography in colonial South Africa.

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.

Erscheinungsdatum	01.04.2017
Reihe/Serie	Crime Files
Zusatzinfo	22 Illustrations, black and white; X, 206 p. 22 illus.
Verlagsort	Basingstoke
Sprache	englisch
Maße	148 x 210 mm
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturgeschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Sprachwissenschaft
Schlagworte	Arthur Conan Doyle • BBC • Contemporary Culture • Crime Fiction • Genre Fiction • literary adaptation • Mrs Hudson • neo-Victorian fiction • popular culture • postmodern intertextuality • Professor George Edward Challenger • television adaptation • The Hound of the Baskervilles
ISBN-10	1-137-55594-7 / 1137555947
ISBN-13	978-1-137-55594-6 / 9781137555946
Zustand	Neuware