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Sherlock Holmes in context /

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; secon...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Naidu, Samantha
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London : Palgrave Macmillan, [2017]
Colección:Crime files series.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.