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Sherlock Holmes and Conan Doyle

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  • © 2013

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Editors:
  1. Sabine Vanacker

    1. University of Hull, UK

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  2. Catherine Wynne

    1. University of Hull, UK

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Table of contents (13 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiii
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  2. Introduction: From Baker Street to Undershaw and Beyond

    • Catherine Wynne
    Pages 1-18

  3. The Case of the Multiplying Millions: Sherlock Holmes in Advertising

    • Amanda J. Field
    Pages 19-35

  4. Sherlock Holmes and a Politics of Adaptation

    • Neil McCaw
    Pages 36-48

  5. ‘Open the Window, Then!’: Filmic Interpretation of Gothic Conventions in Brian Mills’s The Hound of the Baskervilles1

    • Terry Scarborough
    Pages 49-63

  6. The Curious Case of the Kingdom of Shadows: The Transmogrification of Sherlock Holmes in the Cinematic Imagination

    • Harvey O’Brien
    Pages 64-79

  7. Sherlock Holmes, Italian Anarchists and Torpedoes: The Case of a Manuscript Recovered in Italy1

    • Claudia Capancioni
    Pages 80-92

  8. Sherlock’s Progress through History: Feminist Revisions of Holmes

    • Sabine Vanacker
    Pages 93-108

  9. Sherlock Holmes Reloaded: Holmes, Videogames and Multiplicity

    • Souvik Mukherjee
    Pages 109-123

  10. Sherlock Holmes Version 2.0: Adapting Doyle in the Twenty-First Century

    • Bran Nicol
    Pages 124-139

  11. The Strange Case of the Scientist Who Believed in Fairies

    • Andrew Lycett
    Pages 140-154

  12. Channelling the Past: Arthur & George and the Neo-Victorian Uncanny

    • Patricia Pulham
    Pages 155-168

  13. Arthur Conan Doyle’s Appearances as a Detective in Historical Crime Fiction

    • Jennifer S. Palmer
    Pages 169-183

  14. Sherlock Holmes in Fairyland: The Afterlife of Arthur Conan Doyle

    • Clive Bloom
    Pages 184-196

  15. Back Matter

    Pages 197-220
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About this book

Sherlock Holmes is an iconic figure within cultural narratives. More recently, Conan Doyle has also appeared as a fictional figure in contemporary novels and films, confusing the boundaries between fiction and reality. This collection investigates how Holmes and Doyle have gripped the public imagination to become central figures of modernity.

Editors and Affiliations

  • University of Hull, UK

    Sabine Vanacker, Catherine Wynne

About the editors

CLIVE BLOOM Emeritus Professor of English and American Studies at Middlesex University, UK CLAUDIA CAPANCIONI Lecturer in English at Bishop Grosseteste University College Lincoln, UK AMANDA J. FIELD was advertising and promotions manager of IBM UK until she left to pursue academic study, gaining an MA and a PhD in Film Studies from the University of Southampton , UK ANDREW LYCETT Biographer of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature NEIL MCCAW Reader in Literature and Culture at the University of Winchester, UK SOUVIK MUKHERJEE Researcher examining how videogames inform and challenge current conceptions of technicity, identity and culture BRAN NICOL Reader in Modern and Contemporary Literature at the University of Portsmouth, UK HARVEY O'BRIEN Lecturer in Film Studies at University College Dublin, Ireland JENNIFER S. PALMER Retired teacher and independent scholar PATRICIA PULHAM Reader in Victorian Literature at the University of Portsmouth, UK TERRY SCARBOROUGH College Professor in the Department of English at Okanagan College, Kelowna, Canada

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